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Epheflans,
Chap.q..
V
E R.31.
D.
We
muff
take
heed
of
evill
fpeakirig;and
curfed
fpea-
king,
Pfal,
iog, ry.
Some fpeeches
which are
re-
vilings
in
one
are
but
re-
proofes in a-
nothet.
Luke 24,z5.
b1ar.16.2.3.
Doli.
Malicioufneffe
istofhunncd.
What
malicli,
oufneßè is.
Itappeareth
;.
wayes,
Prov,z6,z6.
of
Petting
up
the
throat,
fo
that
the houle
we
are in
will
fcarce hold
us.
The
next
thing
is
evil! fßeaking.
Obferve, That
we
muff take heed
of
miforderly
/jeech,
but
much more
of
curfed fpeech
:
This
evil! fpeaking
may
be againff
God,
Efay
8.21.
Blajphemy
is
the
daughter
of
anger of-
ten, againft our neighbour,our felves,
fuch
as
imprecation
,
revilings,
&c.
For this to
ufe curfed
language
is
dangerous
to
us
;
He loved cur
-
ffng,and
it
(hall
light
on
him: Such
as
caft up
(tones
in
the
aire may crack
their
ownecrownes.
Againc,
men fhould
not,
dealing with the
devil!,
ufe
curled fpeaking.
The
godly
blelle fuch
as
curie them, for
the
tongue
of
Canaan
is
their fpeech,
and this
doth
taffy
them
to
be the
Lords children:
But
fuch on
the contrary
as
ufe curfed
fpeaking
,
a
man may
fay
to them
as
the
men
faid
to
Peter,
Thou
art
one
of
them,
for
even thy
/Beech
bewrayetb thee;
thou art
one
of
the
hellifh
brood,for thy
language
is
devilifh: An Englifh man
is
known
by
fpeaking Englifh.
Yet
we muff know
that the
fame
words which
arc revilings
in
fome,
are
but juft reproofcs
in
other forre
:
For
if
one from love
of
a
Party
and hatred of
his vice
doe (to
make him afhamed)
call
him foole,
it
is
not to
be counted curfed fpeaking;
Chrift
called
the
¿ifciples
foolifh,
Peter
Satan,
Paul called
the
Galatians roughly:
The
fame action,
as
the
bereaving
of
life,
is
in
a
magiftrate
Juftice,in
another
is
murder:
So
the
fame fpeech
comruing from
divers grounds to diversends, may
be
lawful!
in
one,unlawfull
in
another.
With all
Malicioufne
fe.]
Obferve,
another
root
of
bitternefe
which
we mu]!
root Out,v:L ssalicioufnefe5 it
is
well
filed
on the
fame
firing
with thcfe former,for
ufually
it
is
engendred of wrath:for
as
wine tut.
ned
doth
make
vinegar, fo wrath
feticd and encreafed
in
us
becom-
meth hatred.
Of
this
two
things..
r.
What
it
is.
a. How
it
doth
manifeft
it felfe.
It
is
a finfull affection
which
doth
feparate and make us
evil! difpo-
fed
toward
our neighbours: and
though fometime
it
is
profefíed,
yet
for the molt part it
is
fmothered.
Now
it
doth
appeare 3. wayes:
I.
It
fpeaketh
evil!
and pra
5lifeth
openly
or
underhand againfi the
party maliced,
as in
defephs
brethrcn,they
could
not
fpeak pea-
ceably,and
mark
their practice,
Gen.
39. Therefore
the
wife
man
faith,Malice Thai
be
di(covered in
theech.
a.
It
envieth at
the good of our
neighbour,
whether
fpirituall
or
temporal!, thus Cain,
Laban,Satil,
the Princes ofDariue.
3.
It
doth
make one
rejoyce when
evill
is
befallen himone mali-
ceth,
as
the Philiftines made
a
Play
and folaced
themfelves
in
the
fight
of
Satrgins
mifery
:
the Drunkards
made
fongs of
David.
Now
then we
that
are
Chriftians
muff
away with
this,
we
are by
nature
hatifull,
and haters
one
of
another
:
and it
is
exceeding
natu-
rail