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Words are (thirdly) egre∣giously wicked, when they are false: for Truth gives them all their substance and solidity, ma∣king the Tongue answer the end for which it was given man, namely, to speak the truth in his heart; and not to have one thing upon the Lip, and ano∣ther in the Mind: which deceit∣ful carriage (though never so usual) was ever thought so a∣bominable, that Agur earnestly pray'd God to remove it far
from him, Prov. 30.8. And the Apostle declared against it, when he said. Lye not one to a∣nother: Making it a principal part of that Heathen course re∣nounced by the Colossians, to suggest or say any false thing to the injury of others, Col. 3.9. or to use craftiness, or any of the evil Arts of deceiving. And the Divine Revel. 22.15. excludes all who love and make a Lye, all hypocritical treacherous per∣sons, from being any more than Equivocal Members of Christ's Church; which instead of ha∣ving any part of the benefits of Christians, shall have their part in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, Rev. 21.8.