Chap,, ` . An Expdfition upon tbeBook of J O B. Vert, 2' again it jerewtiab,advifed thus ( Chap. t S. r8. ) Let usfinite him Arcufamus eusa with the tongue;that is, let us accule him to the King that he may apud eregum be Crnittcn by a publick sentence. In this fence a man is itnpr.ifo- f9'on: indu- ned by the tongue, banith:d by the tongue, hang'd and burn'd by Jiro the tongue, that is, 'the tongue doth all thefe virtually (or vit,i- a,ci.,mur, Butica feuren- oufly rather) by falle accufations, caufing thefe things to be done tr ®viputer. aEtually and formally. Flagellum lfn- `. 5econdly,Others interpret the fcourgeofthe tongue,tobe thofe guseIlpe "' terrible and dreadful reports which amaze,Ia(h and afl(:a the fpi in Judic;o can fltraea, û pa. rit about the apptoach ofdangers.As,when a report is rung in .t he ffutarf-ri.,d eare,that an invading enemy,tpoylers and plunderers, arm'd with calumniators- .power and malice arc at hand to take away eflates, libertie and Bur. lives. Howmany have been beaten about the ears, and fcourg'd with fuch Alarums ?(Jer. 5 o,43. J it is laid, The KingofBabylon bath heard the report of them :what report was it ?and ofwhom? A fpie rides in,and kills the King with the tongue,flrikes him tho- rough with histongue before he was toucht with the fword ofthe ?iledes and Perfians: How ?He brought him in a fad report,that the enemy was upon his rnarch,then it fol lows, The King of Babylon bath beard the report of them, and his bands waxed feeble, anguifh coke ho id of him, andpangs as of a woman in travel. We find the like exprcflîon, Ifá. 28. i 8, i9. They who had flighted the judgements of God, and Paid, when the over-flowingfcourge¡hall part thorough, it fhóuld not come near them, even thefe ( faith God ) {hall be vext, when they doe but hear of a fcGíurge com- ing mare I will fend a report, and it Jhall ?aft over morning by morning, , and it fball travel by day and by night ; and what thall be the effect of it ? It¡hall be a vexation ( faith the Lord ) onely to underfland the report. You (hall not onely be vexed when the enemy is come, and thrufis a fword intoyour bowels,and fire into your houles, but you ¡hall be vext at the noire ofhis corn- ing, it fball be avexation toyou to heart the report. It is a great mercy to be delivered and hid from this ícourge of the tongue, and this is promifed himwho feares God, ( Pftl. a t a 7. ) No evil tydings (ball make him afraid. A heart which bath trembled at the-voice ofGud infiruiling him, ¡hall not tremble at the voice of nun reporting evil to him. Many a man is more afraid then hurt, and more perplexed with the hearingofevil tydings, then others are with feeing or feeling the evil. The Lord threatens Ely, to doe fuch a thing in 'lived, and againft his houfe, that both the cares
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