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milk^t but 3 & made but 6 pound a week

19 he told alsoe the say^d Robert Shileto that Goodm: Puttman of Sako[3]

  ought him 4 p^nds. in mony for flax tears. James 3. 5 6.[4]

20 he say^d before the church that according to his promise he had acknowledged

his fault to M^rs Nelson in telling her lyes against my wife, w^ch M^rs Nelson

affirmes he never did

When he came from Ipswich with the wine w^ch was left (for he had made away w^th

a gallant of it before he gott home) rydeing throw the street here M^r Haslolin[5] &

Tho: Allney seing him look soe redd they asked him what he ailed, he answered Oh

man I have drunk a quart of Sack y^s morning, they told him that was more yⁿ

did him good, he say^d he could sit on his horse still, what was this but a decla

ring his sin like Solomon

Heer was stealing, some degree of drunkeness & noe little, lying prodigall

wastefullness in y^t he would needs pay his wages of a quart of Sack when it was not

required of him y^t we hear off, then he bezled[6] away a gallant the same night in

so much y^t he was the worse 3 or 4 days after for what he had drunk soe Excessively

as hims acknowledged before S. P. & 2 or 3 more

1 ffor stealing was lay^d before him Levitt 19. 11 & 6. 2 & y^e aggravation

for soe smal a mattre transgress for a piece of bread or handfull of Barly 13

Ezeck. 19. they y^t sin for greatest profit make a loosing bargain of it what

then doe you that sin for trifle and y^t after he had profest hims much affected

w^th y^e light he had received from M^r Burr concerning the exceeding Evill of

the least sin: that w^ch some excuse sin by inceaseth it whilst men will

break Gods comand & provoak his anger for a trifle, when y^r is little or noe

temptation y^e greater y^e sin 6 prov. 30. soe 5 Acts was it not in your own power

you might have kept it & not lyed about it

2 ffor lying the prophet bewayling the extream sinfullness of thos times sayth yet

have taught their tonges to speak lyes, as if y^y had studied y^e art of lying

Jer 9. 5. after stealing you made lyes your refuge 28 Isai 15. a sin y^t is

an abomination to god one of y^e 7 things that he hates 6 prov. 17 & 12 22

as in that god has a controversy soe wth a nation 4 Hos. 1. 2. god joynes these

w^th notorious sinners & sayth their portion is in the lake that burns with fire

& brimstone which is y^e 2^d death 21 Rev: 8. 19 prov. 9 if we must give an

account of every Idle word much more of Every lying word

Its a sin against God Gods [sic] spirit tho not the unpardonabl Sin Acts 5 2. 3. 4.

Its a contradiction to godliness & y^e profession of Chr. 3 Coll 9. any one act of

lying strikes at the vitality of godliness yea its Contrary to y^e light of nature &

condemned by the Heathen 1 Titus 12. ffor aggravation

heer multitudes of lyes a way of lying 119 Ps 29. David beg^d deliverance from it

It was against light when a man committs a not onely a known Sin but know-

ingly this is heinous: Its possibl for a man to comitt a known sin as to speak

falls & yet knowes not that he dos soe: Lying makes most unlike god y^e god

of truth & most like y^e divill who was a lyar from y^e beginning & y^e father of it

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Besides he prophaned the name of god that came to gods house & ordinances

as if he had bin delivered to committ all these abominations Jer 7. 9. 10 11. he

went from praying amongst brethren to lying this was telling lyes in Ipocri

=sy & argues a seared conscience & hard heart 1 Tim 4. 2., you made your

moan to one w^th tears for wandrings in holy dutyes as being more bitter to

you then all your other afflictions but how did such a senc of the body of

death consist w^th such wofull outbreakings of it & that about the Same time

Conserning you[r] lyes of those Newberry maydens se what the word speaks con

serning such as brought up an evill report of a virgin in Israel much

more evill to cast such a slander of many virgins 22 Deut 19. Neh 6. 8.

Sanballat reported lyes of Neh. such as he had noe ground for but devised