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^E^^CP^ ;S jLui TteLVQ^ ofjut)^ AiStto 'TTuAmy Sec, 



He that tells Lies is as hateful to me as the 



Gates of Hell or Death. The Pradice of 



lying is a diabolical Exercife, and they that ufe 

 it are the Devil's Children, as our Saviour tells 

 us, yohn viii. 44. Te are of your Father the Devils 

 6^c. for he is a Liar^ and the Father of it, An4, 

 laftly, it is a Sin that excludes out of Heaven, 

 and depreffes the Soul into Hell. All Liars Jloall 

 have their Part in the Lake which burns with Fire 

 and Brimjioney which is the fecond Death. 



T'hirdlyy Another Vice, or Abufe of Speech, 

 or vicious Adion, to which the Tongue is in- 

 ftrumental, is Slandering -, that is, raifing a falfe 

 Report of any Man, tending to his Defamation j 

 this might have been comprehended under the 

 former Head, being but a kind of lying, pro- 

 ceeding from Enmity or lU-v^illj it is a very 

 great Injury to our Neighbour, Mens Reputation 

 being as dear to them as Life itfelf 5 fo that it is 

 grown to be a Proverb among the Vulgar, Take 

 away my good Name and take away my Life, And 

 that which enhanfes this Injury is, that it is irre- 

 parable ; we cannot, by any contrary Declaration, 

 fo clear the Innocency of our Neighbour, as 

 wholly to extirpate the pre-conceiv'd Opinion 

 out of the Minds of thofe to whom our Confef- 

 fion comes 5 and many will remain whom the 

 C c 4 Calumny 



