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:
meant
by
Salt.
617
Firfi',
.
all
Clriflians
whohave the
truth
of
the
Goff
el,
who
by
their lives,
and in
their
wayes,
doe
fhew
forth the
truth
of
the
Go
feel, they
are the
fait
of
the
earth.
In
an
eminenr
degree thofe
that
doe
carry
the
truths
of
the.
Gofpel
abroad
into
the world, they
are
the fait of the earth.
--
What
is
the.meaning
of
that
?
it
is
a
plaine
fimilitude that
Chrift ufeth,
becaufe
that Country
delighted
much
in
fiorili-
tudes. You
will find
a
great deale
of excellency
in this
ex-
preflìon of
the mind of
Cod
therein.
Firfi, We
find
that
in
Scripture
fair
is
taken for
wifdome,
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6. Let
your
fpeech be altvayes
with
grace,
feafoned
with
s
i
eptimu,n
faait,
that
ye
may
&now
how
you ought
to .anfwer
every
man,
et ùtiliffimum
When
you
f
pear,
let not your fpeeches
be
with any corrupt comma-
a
cib,rum
nication
that
loath
no
wifdome in
it
but
in
all
our fpeeches
let
c
d
idmen
a
a
there
be
wifdome.
And
in
the 9
Chap. of
Mark,
the
5
o.
verfe.
hibeatue,
Tranf
Salt
is
ood,
but
if
the
fait
have
loft
his
faltnef
e, wherewith
will
fertur,
MOM
you
realm
it
?
Have
fait
inyour [elves,
and have
peace
one
with
ad faaientiam
another.
Order
all your wayes wifely.
And this
was
the
corn-
fignthcandam
mon acception of
the
ordinary language.
Salt
hath
been taken
bit
é
°teHomni-
almoft
by
all
kind of
people to
lignifie underflanding,wifdom.lur
utiliur
im
One
faith
that the
Grecians
were the
fait
of
the
Nations,
and
vita
Muss
the
reafon
was
becaufe
that
Grace
had almofi
.
all
leanings,
and
that
was
the
fait
of the Nations
;
they
were wont ordina-
rily
to
exprefl'e
the
works
of
mans
underfianding
by
ir.
I
have
read that
in
Italy, if
any
one
doth
cafi fait
to anbther,they
take
it
for
a
difgrace and mockery
;
as
if
fuch
a
man
wanted wit.
And
fo
the
Latins faith,
One
that
is
fooli
fh wanteth
fait.
And
the Scripture
calls
that that
is unfavory by want
of fait,
it
calls
it
folly.
In all
this
lob
finned not , nor
charged
Godfooli
fhly,
in
Chap.
t.
22 verfe.
Again
in
the
6 Chap.
and
6.
verle.
Can
that
which is unfavory
be
eaten without
fait;
or
there
any
tafle
in
the white
of
an
egge.
So
that
by
Scripture
and common
ac
ception
of people
in
former times. And
now by
fait
is
meant
underflanding
and wifdorne.
re
are
the
fait
of the
earth
The
meaning
is
this, in
the ñrfi place,
you
are thofe
that
be
holding
Kkkk
forth