>15. And as
for that saying of the Apostle, “Putting away lying, speak every
man truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of
another,”2402
far be it
that we should so understand it, as though he had permitted to
speak a
lie with those who are not yet with us members of the body
of
Christ. But the reason why it is said, is, because each one of
us ought to account every man to be that which he wishes him to
become, although he be not yet become such; as the
Lord showed the
alien Samaritan to be
neighbor to him unto whom he showed
mercy.”
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A neighbor
then, and not an alien, is that man to be accounted, with whom our
concern is that he remain not an alien; and if on the score of his
not being yet made partaker of our Faith and Sacrament, there be
some truths that must be concealed from him, yet is that no reason
why false things should be told him.
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