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Ephefians
Chapa.
VER.iy.
our halting may have nothing againft
us,
that
we may offend none:
for
our lives
and
words
muff give a rebuke
:
now
if
our
felves be
un-
circumfpea
we
(hall
quickly be taken,
and
lime
from
them,
Phyftian
beate thy
(dfe.
Rego,
4.
Again, we
muff
give
no
offence:
Cel.
ç.
5.
Walke
wifely
toward
them
that
are
without.
n
Cor.
n
o. 3a.
Give
no offence
neither
to
kw
nor
Gentile, nor the Church
of
God.
Lambes among wolves howling,
had
needs
to
be circumfpe&.
?
eajon
s,
In
regard
of
our
God,
as
vvtofes
in
Deut.
exhorteth,
walke
in
hra
Commandments,
goe
neither
to
the
right
hand
nor
left,
your
hod
is a
jea-
lous
God. a
con
fuming fire.
Yfe
z.
This
therefore
doth
rebuke fuch
as
thinke men
that
are
any thing
araire, why they
are
more
curious then neederh,
as
doe openly en.
veigh againft
a
Chriftian
precifeneffe;
who
can cite
their Scripture,!
Be
net
too
wife,
be
not
over
jolt,&c.
but though
ftraining gnats and fwal.
lowing camells be
naught,
yet there
is
no
precifeneffe
too
much,
in
dying to
finne.
Such
as
walke at rovers, even
as
it
hitteth,
fuch
as
can
fwallow
foule
firmes,
and have
no
fenfe
of
them,
as
unfruirfulnefie, deadneffe,
Tufts
of
intemperance,
fits
of
choler, &c.
and
thofe that count this
a
yoake intolerable.
Doll.
The
fecond
thing
to be marked
is, That
precif
neffe
in
our
lives
is a
fruiteof
true
wifedome;
Walke
exa6
llyaswife
(faith the
Apofile;)ifthe
Deut. 4.
t,o.
heathen
fhould give
the
verdi&,rhis
would prove
a
t:
uth.
t
havetangbt
you
fixates
and judgements, even
as
the
Lord
my God commanded me,
.keepe
therefore
and
doe
them,
for
this
is
your
ni
f
dîme
:
And
Solomon
eve-
ry
where, doth
make this
the properne
of
a
wife
man, to
fool,
eto
his
Prev.16.=r.
wayes
:
The
wifedome
of
the prudent
is to
tonderflandhis nay.
If
we look
to
particulars, we
Thal)
fin
de
that
wifedome
Both
order the whole
man.
The
kart,
Prev.
a
;.
19.
Be
wife
andguide
thy
heart
in
the
way.
The
thoughts,
wifedome will not let
the
miede give place
to
idle
ones, it will
nor let
us
thinke
of
our fclves
as
wife;
A
fade
is wife
in
his
fume eyes.
The
power
of
reel
fon, judgement,
memory
are
all
guided
by
this.
So
remembrance it
fclfe.
The
Werds
are
ordered bywifedome,
The
heart
of
ehewife,
teacheth his mouth,
and
addeth learning
to
his
lippes.
ThegeJlsorea,
Prov. z7.
aq.. Wifedome
is
before
him
that
bath underfia s.
ding.
Concerning
this wifedome we will
Phew
two things:
z.
What
it is.
m.
What
arc
the
fpeciall fruites,
that
teflifie
of
it;
and
fo
make
Ilk
of
the
doárine.
Wifedome
is a
light
in
man,
The
wife
mans
eyes
are in his bead,
fetch
nodirea?etbusin
our
way es,
Ecclef.
zo.
Io.
Jam.
3. I
;.
If
any.
be'
wife?
lot
himlbew
out
of
agood conveyfation.
his
works
with
meekeneffe of
j
wilidonee
$;
It doth
aâc
l
us,
fo
move the will that
it
doth follow,
for Chrift
maketh