Chap, 5. An Expafitienupon the Book of J Q $, Verf, 2 t. 35 3 eares ofhim that beares ¡hall tingle, i Sam. 3. Ir. But, Thirdly, Some tranflate thus, He (hall be hid when the tongue wandretb or walketh about ; for the fame word which fig- idam9 "l ñ nifies aJcourge .; by the alteration ofa point in the Hebrew, fig- gud urfu nifies to run to andfro. It is the word ufed in the full Chapter, u,illpro where Satan reports himfelf, A Goer to and fro about the earth, ä9iù Drat There is an exprttlion ( Pfalm, 73. 9. ) futable to this fence, Mete.- though the original word be not the fame«beyfet their mouth a- gainfi the Heavens, and their tongue walketh thorow the earth. The tongues ofmany take longjourneyes, while themfelves fitfill : Kingsare Paid to have long hands, but many of their fubjetis have long tongues, and firike their brethren with themmany hundreds of miles off ; the tongue travels from towne to towne, from City toCity, and fcourgeth one here, and there another. And, while thefemen fend their tongues about a wandering, to wound here and there, this and that mans credit,lie is a happy man that can be hidfrom them. Fourthly,Some of the HebrewDoáors,retaining the fore-going, fenfe of the Verb, fay, that by tongue, is meant Nations and peo- Sant quips ple : When the tongue, that is, when a Nation final goe about, or linguae hie march fromplace toplace to defiroy and over-runne aLand,then, a ell,1 d.quue at fuch a time,thou (halt be hid:It is frequent inScripture toput groffabuntur tongues for Nations, or tongues and nations for the fame, Rev. 7. tongé Ìateq 9. Chap. 17, 15.And there is a comfortable truth in the matter ofgenes &pa- this interpretation ; That when all tongues or nations (hall bega- depopuóbun' thered tod.eftroy us, yet wejhall behid : As if it (hould be faid tur, EVc,orut, ( like that, Pfal. 83.6.) Though the Tabernacle of Edonz and the Ifhnoaelites, of Moab and the Hagarens, Gebal, and Am- mon, and Amalek, the Philifiines, with the inhabitants of re, be confederate againl thee : or, to take moderne names andTa- tions, though Irifh and Spanifh, French and Danes, &c. fibuld at any time wander from their own lands to invade thee;yet thou (halt be hid when there tongues rove and wanders f poil and pil- lage. The matter, I fay, of this interpretation is a truth, and a very comfortable one, but I would not charge it upon this Text. Fifthly, and`moft generally, and I conceive moll truly, by thee fcourge of the tongue, is meant all, and all manner of calumnies and ílanders, curingsor evil fpeakings,falfe witneffes and accula- tions, and from thefe ( the promife is) thou (halt be hid, It i3 Z z Paid,
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