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R I,
Ccn.J.i,
by,as to doe good with. There
betongtlesuf Angels
(~
Angels,
I make no doubt but of
evil/;
and fo, the
Dive!/
hath his
tongues;
goo
.
And he hath the an of
cleaving.
He fhewed it in rhebeginning, when he riiad
rhe
~erpeitt, lmgu~m
bijtdfam,
aforked tomgue,
to
fpeakerhar, which \vas cont
e
to h1s knowledge and meanillg,
ThtyJbould not die;
and as he didrhc
Serpents
flahry
can doe others.
•
0
e
Thcrds.fire in
ilea,
aswellasin
Heaven
;tharj weallkndw.
•
Onely, in this, they agree nor, but are unlike; his
'tongues
cannot
fit /fill,
bur
A
i1p and dowlieall over the world, and (pare neither
Minifter,
nor
M
agiJtrate,
non~
Go
b
Himfelfe.
·
'
Bur ifwe fhall fay to ourtongue,as
David
did td
his,Awake up my
glory
(that
is)
make it theglory ofall the refr of our members; it can
h~ve
nogrearergloryrhan
this, to be the
Organ
of
d~e
Ho
L Y
G
1t
o
s
-r:
to fer forth, and
found
abroad rhe
knowledge of CH
11 1
s
i,to the glory ofG
o
o
the Father.
Andifoufed, itishea.
,verdy; no time, fo heavenly as then; in
no
fervice,fo heavenly as inthar.
Not to inlarge this point tunher, there is no new matter inir. This here (ofrhe
Tongtees)
is as that before ofthe
found;
both are
to
no other end, but to admonilli
them oftheir
office,
whereto they here
receive~
ordination :
even to
beTonguu,
to .
'be
trumpet
I
of the Co•mfe/1gf
G
o
D,
and of H1s
Love
to
mankinde; in fending His
S811nt
to Cave them.
,
,
Here is wind ro fcrve for
breath
;
and-here are
Tongues
now, and what fl10'uld let
Mark" 6 ·'
f·
them to doe
it~
That which before they received in' charge
audib/1,
Ite,
Pr4dicatt·
the very fame they11ere received
viflbly,in
this ap'paritio·n,whi):h is after expounded
thus;
c,.perunt loqui,
by vercue ofthele
tunguu they,bega'n tbJiealu.
i Clovttz.
ltHil,lltS.
Tongues
and
duven tPnglles.
And that very
deavillg,
oftight
netefl'atfufe,roth~
bufine!fe inrended. For, that of theirs was busone whole emireco'nguc, rhat cowld
fpeake but one poore language, the
Syrian,
ihey were bred
id.
Theie was nota
clefl
in it. So, could they fpeake their minde to nonebut
Syrians ;'
and
by
thatm~anes,
'fhould
theG~e!/
have beenefhut up, in one corner ofthe world.
. .
.
Tl
wlu'
""''
is the goodne!fe ofall thatis
good;
even the
imparti11g
it to the good
of the common. Tothe end then, this great good of rhe
knowledge
ofthtGI~eU,
might be difperfed to many Nations,evento
every nation under
he.ven;Tothatend,
elove He their tongues :
to make many
tongues
,in one tongue; ro make one manrobe
able
to
fpeake to many men, of many Countries,
to every one, i11
hu
ownelanguge;
·tfthere mufl: be a
falling of the IJe»ti!ts,
they mufr have the tongues of th.e
Genlilts,
Cr.o .•o.is.
wherewith to
fall
them.
Ifthey were debters,not onely to the
ltwes,
but to the Gmi•ns;
nay,
not only to the Grecians, but to the BarbArians tog;
then mu
it
they
havetheto~t'"
lt•m.t ,
4 _
' noronly
ofthclewes,
but ofthe
Grecians
and ofthe
Barbarians
too, ropay
thisdeh,
l>hrk<
·~
•I·
to
difcharge the dutieof
Itc, Pr.edifate,
to all.
And this was
a
fpeciall favour from Go
o,
·for the propagation
ofHisGe[pe«
farre
~nd
wide, this divifion of
tongues:
and it is by the ancient Writers(all)recko·
ncd
a
phine reverting ofthe
curfe of BAbe!, by
this
hleji»g uf Sion:
fince they
ac.
count it all one (and fo it is) either, as at the lirfl:, for
all
men
to fpeake
one
la~ggage;
or,
as
here,
one man
fpeake
Jll.
That is here recovered, that there, was loll;
and
rhey
inab-led for the building up of
Si~n
in every Nation, to fpeake fo, as all m1ght under–
ftand them ofevery Narion.
.
Rom.sf
6 ,
But this withal! we
are
ro take with us: that,with their many tongues,they fpake),
Ch•p 4·' 4 '
one thing,and
that
V11ivoce.
With
une mouth (Rom.15.6.)Withmevoice(Chap·•t-24·.
With
diver{e to»guu
to utter one and
t
hcfamefenfe,
that is GoD's
dwm
tongilt'
that,i,s the divifion of
Sion,
ferving to edification.
·
.
.
With onetongue,
,._quivoce,
to utter diverfe-fenfes, diverfe meamngs; that,
15
Mnc of Go
o's,
iris the
Serpentsfirkedtongile,
the very
diviflonuf Cabtl,
and ten·
· 'deth
ro
norhing but confufion.
·
.
ce
Tonguudoven,and
t~~they
h,ulbeen offire. As they hadlmne :to
keep
a
d1ffercn ..
!rt
thefe
(as
before,in the
Wind>)
and to fhew, that they were not of
<~Ut
elemenfi,:
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