.I'30 Chap. 32. lln Expefition upon the Book, of J o B. Verf.22. others give reviling titles, detracting, calumniating, and biting titles ; it is as dangerous not to forbeare the one ,... as to be free and forward in giving the other , and therefore we should take . heed of both thefe extreames, that our fpeech may have an e- quail refpe& to truth, both whilewe praife, and, while. we re- prove. Verf. 22. For I know not how togive flattering titles. Kefii° cogno- It feemes to have little vertue in ir, or matter of commenda ,nhare; i.e. tien, not togive flattering titles,when we arenotable, or know.. Blandiri...Bez: not how,to give them;To heare.one that is(as we (peak)-a meere. Countryman, or a clown fay , I will not give flattering tides, fpeakes not his praife at all, becaufe 'cis fuppofed he at molt can but fpeake.fence, or true Engli h ; but to heare a learned man, or Come Great Courtier fay, will not give flattering titles, this is fornething, this fhewes that his honefly mailers his ability, and that his, cònfcience is too prong for his parts. How is it then that Elihu faith, /how not tegive flattering titles ? Had not Eli- huwit and skill, words atid language at command togive them ? Was he fo courfely bred that he could not reach them ? I aniwer, Thofe words, Lk.now..not, may have a three-fold in- terpretation. Firfi, Iknow not;is, I.havenot made, that pieceof knowledge my Rudy, I have not let my felfe tolearne the art of flattery, . nor to gaine the skill of carnalCourtfhip. Thus I know not to doe it, is, I have, not let my felfe to doe it, I have not made it my bufineffe, or my ayme to doe it ; .flgood man hath, or at lean defireth no skill ïn,that which-ia eviti, or not hù duty ; how much foever any manknows to flatter, yetwe may fay he knows not to flatter who abhorreth flattery ;And can fay (as the Apoll.e fpeaks, Ephef: 4. zoc) Hehuth:not fo !earned Chri l- ; that is , he hash heard nofuch leffons, nor.received any fuchinfIruuion in the fchoole ofChrift. Thus Elihu faith ,._I know not to give flattering titles. And doubtleffe, 'tis belt being anIdeot, or abungler at the doing of that which is not good , or (as the Apollie faith, force are toe- very good work) tobe reprobate to every evill work, and word. How knowing are they, who can fay in truth , they knownot how t a lie, or: flatter, &c. I dare not fay (with the Papif+s ) that i Miorance
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