You have eaten the fruit of lyes

You have eaten the fruit of lyes.

First, What are those lyes that they eate the fruit of?

First, Those arguments by which you justify yourselves in your iniquity. Yes, but they are but the fruit of lyes. They would set up a way of false worship, but they would have some reasons for it, they would have some arguments to defend it, and those, Oh how they hugged and closed with them, and let any one bring and shew them that such a thing may be proved thus and thus by such an argument; now because they had a mind to the thing, their hearts closed upon those arguments, and they fed upon it, it did them good at their hearts.

Secondly, You feed upon lyes; that is, Those comforts that you have from the way of false worship, the way that you set up you have a great deal of comfort in it, and you are very glad that it thrives, It is but a Lye (says God.)

Thirdly, Their hopes that they had when that way was established of theirs, they had such hopes that all should be so well, and that there should be no more trouble between them and Jerusalem: I, but you feed upon Lyes (says God) It is but a Lye that you feed upon.

The Fourth Lye that they fed upon was, The Interpretation of God's dealings, in blessing them for the way of their false worship which they had set up; then all kind of outward blessings which they had they made this interpretation of them, the goodness of God to them for that which they had done: As that is usual in places where there is any thing in matters of religion altered, though it be not right, yet you shall have men that are for that way, what ever blessing comes upon a nation, they will interpret it as the fruit of that. I, but this will come to nothing.

And then fifthly, The fifth Lye, was, Those false reports that came to them against those that did oppose their way of false worship: there were many that would not yield to the way of false worship, and upon that reports were raised upon them, what kind of men they were, and what they had done, and when these reports were brought to them of the other way, Oh they did them good at their hearts, I but, You have eaten the fruit of lyes: many mens Breakfasts, and Dinners, and Suppers are nothing else but lyes. Surely now this will breed no good nourishment. And what's the reason that we have such a deal of ill blood among us? It is, because that men have such course food as they have.