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586
Ephefians
Chap.S.
`?sR.q..
VERS.
4.
Do
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DoEI.
Pray.b9.i1.
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4.
Neither
flthinejfe,
nor foolifh
talking,
nor
jelling;
which
are
not
convenient;
but
rather
giving
of thanks.
Now
followeth the prohibition
of
uncleanneffe
in
word
:
this verfe
being
an
expofition
of
the 29.
verfe
of
the former
Chapter. We
are
to
confider
the prohibition offpeech which endeth
occafionally
often
in
uncieannefl'e.
The
reafons
why
even all uncleanneffes, and
all
words
occafioning it fhould be avoided; for the reafonhath
reference
to this
verfe and
that before
:
The
prohibition
is in
this
verfe
:
and
firft
bee
expreffeth fpeechwe mutt avoid.
Secondly,
fpeech we mutt
ufe.
In the firfthe layeth
downe,
r.
The
kinds
of
finfull fpeech.
2.
The
judgement
of
the holy Ghoft.
The
firftin
thefe
words[neither
filtbineffe,] that is, filthy fpeaking,
and
fooliJh
f
ea
king and
jelling
:
The
fecond
in
thofe words,
whichare
things
uncomely.
r. Then
we
fee
, Thatfilthyfßeaking
muff
be
left
of
Chriflians
;
caft
away filthy fpeaking,
far
evili
words
corrupt
good
manners
;
and
he
that
can
fpeake filthy
words without
blushing , will
commit filthy works
without
ill
amcfacedneffe.
It
doth
check fuch
whole
black mouths can
fpeake
fo
broad, that
nothing
in
the old Comedic
is
more beatify,
and it muff
teach
us
to
be chaftly fpoken.
Foolifh
fpeaking.]Obf.2.
We
muff
be
void
of
all
foolifh words.
For the
meaning
ofit,
in
generali every
word
of
a
(inner
(whom
the Scripture
calleth afoolc)is foolifh,for he wanteth the true wifdomefrom above,
lam.
3.17.
But here he meaneth fuchwords
as
reafon
it felfe
may con-
demne
of
folly:
Now
thefe
are,
a.
Speeches
to
no end, idle
words
:
for natural! reafon
telleth
us,
that
whatfoever
is
fpoken
or
done
in
wifdome,
muff have force
good
end
in
truth or
appearance.
a.
Lavifh fuperfluous fpeech.
v4
foole
poareth
out
all
his
heart,
a
wife
man
keepethbacke
till
afterwards.
3.
Rath fpeech, which
a
man fpeaketh before
his under(landing
leadeth. Is
it
not
foolifh
in
a
meffenger
to
runne
without
an
erraad!
So
in
the tongue to
fpeak
without the information
of
the underftan-
ding.
q. Abfurd inconfequent fpeech,
as
that, ¡judo
nothing in him
,
let
wss
fcourge bim
and
find
him
away.
Common
reafon
would
have faid,
let
us
difmitfe him
with commendation.
S.
Perfonall
fpeeches, boafting,
&c.
Cor. r
1.17. For
the rule
of
wifdome
is,
that
anthers
mouth
Jhouldcommend
us;
not oarowne.
This
therefore fheweth
us
that
wee mutt avoid
this
kinde
ofdif-
courfe, not
be
fuch as can fpend
howers
in
telling tales
and (codes ,
as
if
we were read onely
in
the golden Legend.
We
mutt not
be fuper-
fluoufly
fpoken, for
in
the multitude
of
words
there will
be
folly;
nor
yet
in
fpeeches
ofoftentation,
for
thefe and fuch like are palpably
foolifh.
3.
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