idle andworldly Talk to be denied. even goodnefs it felt, falvarion, and the way to it, to be the ena,ter of your dirconrfe. And left one thing fhould weary you, you have a world of variety to employ your fpeeches on ; even God, and all his works, and word, and waies before-men- tioned. And is it not a flume to talk of vanity, yea to go leek for recreation in vanity, while all there hand by, and offer themfelves to be the fubleas of your wife, and fruitful, and delightfulleft dircourre : Confider whether this be wife or equal dealing. 4. Moreover a courfe of idle talk, is a thief that robs us of our precious rime. And he that knows what God is, or what duty is, or what his foul is, or what everlafting joy or torment is, will know that time is a commodity of greater worth then fp conteroptuoufl i to be cast away for nothing. 0 remember when thou art nest in idle talk Did God make thee for this ? doth he continue thee among the living, and keep thee out of hell, and yet prolongeth thy days, that thou fhouldft wafte thy time in idlenefs and vanity ? Hall thou fo many fins to mortifie, and fo many other works to do, which heaven or hell !yeti' on, and fo fbort and uncertain a time to do them in ; and yet haft thou !carve for idle talk ? 5. Moreover, this fin is fo much the greater, becaufe it is not a rare or feldorn fin, but frequently committed and con- tinued in. It is not like the fin of David or Noah, that though greater, yet was but once committed : But this is made great by the number and continuance. Howmany thoufand idle words have you been guilty of in your time? 6. And it is a fin that tended.] to greater fins. For idle word; are the ordinary [mirage to backbiting, railing, lying,and contentious words, [Prov. o. 1 9. In the multitude ofwords there Wantetb not fin : but he that refraineth hie lips 14 wife] Thus a fools lips enter into conteltion, Prov. i 8. mouth :4 his de- firuttion, and his lips are thefnare of his Tool] Ecclef. 5.7. In the multitude of dreams, and many work, are divers vanities : but fear thou God] Ecclef. ro., z, i 3 . [The Lips of a fool will /wallow up himfilf ; the beginning oft he words of his mouth isfool- ifhnefs, and the endof his talk is noadnefs] Idlenefs is the begin- ning, but worfc then idlenefs is the end. R z 7. It I 2 3
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