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e.zG.
Ephefiana,Chap.
q..
543
opened, it Both not favour
fuch
blabtongues,
as
know nothing,
but
they
will
blaze:
And what
is
their
defence!
Why,
they hope
they
fpeake
the truth,
as
if
this were
not the property
of
a
foole
to
fpeake all
he
knoweth,
whereas
a
wife man doch keepe it
for afterward.
And
as
it
rebuketh
tittle
things,
fo
it
doth
warne
us
of
our duty,
that
we doe take heede
that
we
get knowledge
of
that
wee fpeake,
and
that
we fpeake according
to
our knowledge
:
for many
fpeake
un-
truths
by
heedlefneffe and rafh affirmations
of
that they throughly
know not. This
care
to
fpeake the
truth
will approve
us
to be the
children
of
the God
of
truth,
and be
an
evidence
to
us
that
wee (hall
dwell
in
the
heavens
for ever.
For
we
are
members
one
of
another.] Obferve hence, That
this
that
we
are tyedin love
one to
another,mujl
make
seo
be
carefa¢
tofpeake the
truth.
Love doth
not teach to lye,
as
thele
officious
lyers will pretend,
Love
rejoyceth not
in iniquity,
and
that
love is
fall
ly fo called
that
perfwa-
deth men
to
fuch cowries.
Doe the
members
of
the body,as
the
hand,
doth
it
mocke
themouth and deceiveit,
becaufe
it
is
fo ftraitly knit
in
the body!
nothing
.leffe.
VERSE
26.
Be
angry
and
finitenot, let
not
the Saone
got
downe upon
your
wrath,
Now
followetha Precept
of
anger:
and
the
verfe doch
lay
dowse
touching anger
s.
things.
a.
Touching the
beginning or riling
of
it,
Be
angry, hat
jinn
not.
2.
Touching thedurance
and continuance
of
it,
Let
not
the
Stone
gee
down
upon
your
wrath:
Which
is
amplified by
the reafon;
give
not place
to
the
devil:
you
muff
not
doe that
upon
whichthe
Devil! will further
and
further
dole
with you,
as
he
will,
if
you give.
place
to andcheri{h wrath
in
you.
Now
a
little
to
unfold
the
words. Thole words may
taken
as
gi.
ving
a
commandement,
or a permiffion
onély,
like as
that,
Thou
jhalt
Bate
of
every
tree
in thegarden,
did
not binde
Adam
to
tafte them
all,
but
gave
him leave
iffo
he
would
:
So
one may take
this
Be
angry;
but thinke
is
rather commanding
fpirituall
anger,
with
forbidding car-
nal!.
For
as
it
is
finne upon ones foule,
not
to
have
the
juft exercife
of
love; fo of anger
in
due
place
of
it.
Secondly,
we
mull know
that
by being angry 3:things muff be un-
derftood
:
s.
The
iadeliberate
paffion;
for
this,
if
it
.rife
unjuftly,is finfull,
a
fparke
of
the
fire
of
hell
kindled
in
the foule.
z.
The
revengefullaffe(tion ycelded
unto, and willingly
.entertai-
ned.
3.
The
inward
liffe.ion
now accomplifhed
in
looke,
word,
beha-
viour
:
all thefe
are.here,andevery ofthem
to be conceived.
Let
not
the Sonne
goe
down
upon your
wrath.] Thefewords
doe
pro-
verbially
import
as
much
as,Lrt
tenor lodge with
you, nor
take up
an
Inne
in
your
breath.
The
fumine
of
the
verfe
:
"Be
Yfä
z.
Doti.
Our
being &l-
low members
mwit move us
to
fpeake
the
truth.
1
Cor.
13.6.
aRSE
26.
Gen.
z.-16:
Be
angry, a
Commande-
ment.
Three
degrees
of
anger.;