beare false witnesse] Deuteronomy 19:16. Thou shalt neither by speech nor silence, neither by raising or receiving a false report, be injurious to the credit or good name of thy Neighbour: but shalt carefully preserve it, and cleare it from reproach, if thou knowest how to doe it, when opportunitie for it. against thy Neighbour] Nor for him: for all lying is here forbidden; as all crueltie and wrath, by the name of killing: all bodily uncleannesse under the name of adultery: all injurious usurpation of other mens goods, under the name of theft; and the prohibition is made in these termes, because lies are more frequently made against them, and for that such lies are worse which are mixt with malice and slander, then those which proceed out of affection and favour.