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R.
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Ephefians,Chap.5.
613
their
confciences,
that they cannot
but
fling
out; this checks
being as
painful( to
their fettered
foules, as
the
rifting
of
foarcs
is
to
a
wounded
body,
in
which men often cannot hold patience.
VERSE i
z. Forit
is
afbame even
to
fpeake
of
thole
things
which
are
done
of
them
in fecret.
Now
followeth
the
reafon
why
we mutt have
no fcllow(hip with
them
:
that
which
is
fhamefull
to
fpeake,muft
much
leffc
be
done:The
words
are'eafie, oncly
[in fecret]
here fignifyeth
out
of
fight
of
all,
having none prefent
they
needs
to
care
for;
Two
things
are here
to
be marked.
That
Chriffians
muff (hew
a
holy fhamefacednetfe
in
their fpeech;
the Apoflle (as blufhing)doth decline the
very name
of
vices in
which
the heathen
lived
:
there
is a
holy
ba(hfulneffe
which
doth
not become
women
and children
onely,
but
all
of
us,
Heb.
ta.
28.
Let
ea
have
grace with reverence,
that
is,
with bathfulneffe, and
(care
to
plea
him:
Now
this vertue
as in aCìion,
fo in
fpeech,
it
doth
thew
it
felfe, caufing
us
name unhonefk
things, things that
are
but uncleanly
(though
with-
out
moral!
difhonefty) decently;
as
the matter
of
eafement,
the
Scrip-
ture calleth
it
the
coveringthe
fette, the
mutual) benevolence
betwixt
men and
women,
knowing
one
another, fo
notorious
things,
as blafphe-
wing,
is
intimated
by
the contrary word
of
bleffing.
So
fometimes it
fheweth it felfe
in
concealments,
as
here
it
makeththeir
finnes
dumbe
matters, that were not to
be named
amongft Chrillians.
Which
doth
rebuke
that
(hamelefnef(e
in
many
who
can
fpeake,
Yf
r:
nay doe
things
never
fo
broad, without blufhing,
of
whom wee may
truely
fay,
Voyd
of
fhame,
voyd
of
grace.
It
Both
teach
us,
that
we muff (hew modeflie
in
our fpeech, and
us
Minifters efpecially;
we mutt
not
in
reproving finne, take the liberty
of the
fage
rather then the
Pulpit,
in
the
deciphering
of
it,
defiling our
owne tongues,
offending
the
cares
of
others,
and teaching men fur-
ther
knackes
in
finne,
which we labour
to
fuppre(fe.
Yet though
we
are
bound alwayes to
this
modeftie, we
muff
not
thinkc
that
it
doth
alwayes
tye
us
to
paffe
the
names
of finne
with
filence;
for the dumbe
finne
in
this place named,
Saint Paul
doth
name to
the
Remanes,
They
left
the
aft
of
the
women,¿
c.Know
ye
not
that
buggerers
'ball
net enter
in-
to the
kingdom
of
God.
Forwhere never
fo filthy
fin
takethplace, there
it
mutt be named, neither
can
they
be
offended at
the naming
of
it
that
live under
the ftench
of
the thing
it
felfe; neither
can
the
naming
there teach
finne,
where
it is
too
frequently praCifed alreadie.
Men muff be
fo
indulgent
that
they mutt not regard the ignorant
V
niceneffe
of
many, who cannot endure
fuch things
uttered,
as the
text
of
Scripture
it felfe
doth not abhorre from.
Marke
from
this verfe, what
is
the
geeifeofevi
ll
doers,
they
love
fe- DeE1.z:
crecie,
and
to
make
all
bid,
before
they
gee about
their bufnef
fe.
Sinne
lo-
veth corners,
John 3. Zr
:
He
that
lovetb
evill,
hatetb the
light :
a
man
that
is
about
any open
evil(
laboureth
to
hide hiinfelfe from
God,
his
Towne
confcience and
the
prefence
of
men.
The
Atheifine
in
the
heart
(hut-
Dol.
a;.
a.