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V
a
8.29,30.
Ephefaans,Chap.
4.
There
are
poore who having fomething and taking
pains,
yet
cannot from
it
make fufficientfupply
of
their wants;now
theft
likewife
are tobe holpen.
We
fee
therefore hence
that
our
luffy
Vagrants
are
not to be
relie.
ved; and
though
in
the time
of
Chrift there
were fome begging, yet it
was
quite betides Gods inftitutión.
Secondly, He
faith
to
them
that have
need,not
to the
good that have
need:
meeting with
the excufesof many,who
becaufe
the poor
are fo
naught,
will
not
doe
for
them;
whereas
if
they
have need,
though
they want
grace,
wee
mutt doe
good
to
them.
Doe good
to all,
though it
is
good
husbandry
to
choofe the
beft , fo much
as
may
be.
This doth
reprove
the
bountifulneffe
of
many which
is
toward
thofe that
are
not
in need
,
that
can returne
the
like, they
bring
Water
to the
Sea,are
full
of
felfe
love,void of
mercy
;
ifye
doe
good
to
them
of
whom ye
hope to
receive goed,whatfangular
thing
doe
you?
doe
not
Heathens
and
Publicans thefame ?
VERSE
29.
Let
no
corrupt communication proceed
out
of
your
menthes; but
that
which
u
good
to
the
art
ofedifying,that it
may
miarler
grace
unto
the hearers.
3o.
vt
ndgrieve
not
the
holy
Spirit
of
God,by
which
ye
arefoaled
to
the
day
efredemption.
Now
followeth
a
Precept
of
fpeecb, amplified
by
a
reafon.
The
Precept
layette
down;
r.
What
words we
muff
avoid.
2.
What
communication we muff
ufe;
which isdefcribed
by
the
end.
r.
Set
down,
goedto the
up of
edifying,
or
needfull edifica-
tion.
2. It
is
expounded,
what
is
good foredification,that
which
misiflrethgrace
to
the
hearer.
The
reafon
is
this:
That
muff
not be donewhich gricveth the
Spirit:
This doth.
The
defcription of the
Spirit
from
fobleffed
a
fruit
or
effect
of
him,
doth
prove
the propefition:He who
fealeth
youto theday
of
redemp-
tion
muff
not be
grieved.
In thewords
of
the 29. verfe this
only
is
to
be
opened
:
what
is
meant
by corrupt
fpeech
t.tnf.
Not
onely
filthy
fpeech,but
all
fpeech
that hath not the
life
ofgracc, that
edifyeth not;
The Word
is[rotten.]
For look
as
in
a
putrified
Corps
there
arc 3.
things5
r.
A
privation
of
the
foule and
life
of
it.
2. An entrance ofcorruption.
3. A heavy fmell
which
paffeth
from it.
So
in
fpeech
which
is
rotten
and
putrified, it
wanteth grace
to
quicken,
it
hath corruption
in
it,
it
cafteth
a
favour
forth
offenfive
to
the
difcerning foule.
For the 3o.verfe,there
are 3.
things
to
be mar-
ked.
C
c
c
a.
That
Yfe
3.
Mat.s,46,
Lukc 6.34.
Whatiscor.
rapt
*etch,
ver.3o