is the Offspring of the devill, and since a lye brings the soul to
the very den of Devils, to wit, the dark dungeon of hell; that men
should be so desperately wicked as to accustom themselves to so
horrible a thing.

Wise. It seems also marvellous to me, specially when I observe for
how little a matter some men will study, contrive, make and tell a
lye. You shall have some that will lye it over and over, and that
for a peny {23b} profit. Yea, lye and stand in it, although they
know that they lye: yea, you shall have some men that will not
stick to tell lye after lye, though themselves get nothing thereby;
They will tell lyes in their ordinary discourse with their
Neighbours, also their News, their Jests, and their Tales must
needs be adorned with lyes; or else they seem to bear no good sound
to the ear, nor shew much to the fancie of him to whom they are
told. But alas, what will these lyers doe, when, for their lyes
they shall be tumbled down into hell, to that Devil that did beget
those lyes in their heart, and so be tormented by fire and
brimstone, with him, and that for ever and ever, for their lyes?

Atten. Can you not give one some example of Gods Judgements upon
lyers, that one may tell them to lyers when one hears them lye, if
perhaps they may by the hearing thereof, be made afraid, and
ashamed to lye.

Wise. Examples! why, {23c} Saphira and his wife are examples
enough to put a stop, one would think, to a spirit addicted
thereto, for they both were stricken down dead for telling a lye,
and that by God himself, in the midst of a company of people. But
if Gods threatning of Liers with Hell-fire, and with the loss of