"You belong to your father, the devil, and you want to
carry out your father's desire. He was a murderer from
the beginning, not holding to the truth, for there is no
truth in him. When he lies, he speaks his native
language, for he is a liar and the father of lies." John 8:44
Satan is the father of all sins, as well as the father of lies.
By lying, he first brought sin into the world. Satan began
his kingdom by a lie, and by lies he still labors to uphold it.
He is the inventor and author of all the lies which are in the
world. "The devil's breasts," says Luther, "are very fruitful
with lies." Liars are the devil's children by imitation. There
are none who resemble him so much to the life, as liars do!
They are as like him as if they were spit out of the his very
mouth. Lying is a part of the devil's image. Other sins make
men like beasts; but this sin of lying makes men like devils.
Such as truly fear the Lord, they hate lying. Psalm 119:163,
"I hate and abhor lying." Proverbs 13:5, "A righteous man
hates lying." Lying is a detestable, stinking weed, and
therefore a righteous man abhors to touch it, he hates to
come near it, and can by no means endure the scent of it
in others—least of all in himself!
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Thomas Brooks (1608 - 1680)
Much of what is known about Thomas Brooks has been ascertained from his writings. Born, likely to well-to-do parents, in 1608, Brooks entered Emmanuel College, Cambridge in 1625, where he was preceded by such men as Thomas Hooker, John Cotton, and Thomas Shepard. He was licensed as a preacher of the Gospel by 1640. Before that date, he appears to have spent a number of years at sea, probably as a chaplain with the fleet.After the conclusion of the First English Civil War, Thomas Brooks became minister at Thomas Apostle's, London, and was sufficiently renowned to be chosen as preacher before the House of Commons on December 26, 1648. His sermon was afterwards published under the title, 'God's Delight in the Progress of the Upright', the text being Psalm 44:18: 'Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from Thy way'. Three or four years afterwards, he transferred to St. Margaret's, Fish-street Hill, London. In 1662, he fell victim to the notorious Act of Uniformity, but he appears to have remained in his parish and to have preached as opportunity arose. Treatises continued to flow from his pen.[3]
Thomas Brooks was a nonconformist preacher. Born into a Puritan family, he was sent to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He soon became an advocate of the Congregational way and served as a chaplain in the Civil War. In 1648 he accepted the rectory of St. Margaret's, New Fish Street, London, but only after making his Congregational principles clear to the vestry.
On several occasions he preached before Parliament. He was ejected in 1660 and remained in London as a Nonconformist preacher. Government spies reported that he preached at Tower Wharf and in Moorfields. During the Great Plague and Great Fire he worked in London, and in 1672 was granted a license to preach in Lime Street. He wrote over a dozen books, most of which are devotional in character. He was buried in Bunhill Fields.