Chap: 6. Art Expofitionupon the Bookof J O B. Vert: 3o. 559 mifèbievour deftre , The mifchievous evil words of his foul. Is there ( faith Job) any fuch mifchievous device in my tongue f Dober Harath Faye I fpoken potion to infer} you, or blatpaemie to dtth:Dnour God. Cannot my tafle difcernperverfe things Cannot my tafie 3 ] The Hebrew is, Cannot ney pallate ? And becaufe the 13,1 Hate is exq,_iiite in tatting, therefore by a trope the organ is expreffd for the ad,Cannot my tafle difcern, cannoi my pallate, Or as others, Cannot my mouth difcern pervert things? That faculty of the foul, whereby we difcern, or difiinguifh tuff from unjufi, truth from falte-hood, as Tweet is dittinguifhed from bitter, by the pallate iselegantly called thepallate of the foul. Poiatun,ots gantimetapho. Cannot my tafle difcern?The Hebrew is,Cannot my tafle under- ra, a f nfibue ffandperverfe things?It is ufual in Scripture to afcribe underhand.. eaternH,ad fin- ing not only to the fenfes, but alto to the tongue, and fomtimes t?ríorostram- to ehe hand.lunderi anding is ale, ieb to the tongue in the place um °P æí°t before named. Pfal.5 a. Where the tongue is laid to devife mij_ facult°tem,q chief. The tongue, properly cannot devife, the tongue doch but luflaabrn¡ullp utter wifchief, it is the mindor heart that devifeth. The fhop is veradjdlyà, within, where tnifchiefis forged and framed yet the contrivance f5'equa of it, is in that text. given to the tongue. There is a twofold rea- reF1a vcrfsu"c fon of it, why the holy Ghent attributes the workof the under- gnfcuut r, handing to the tongue, hand,or feules. Firft, there is a great affinity between" reafon and fpeech, and palazocibi du1.. therefore the tongue, which is the infirument offpeech,is hooured cot ab with the work of the underftanding ? And fogreat is theaffinity *31D between., reafon and fpeech that no creature, void of reafon can scr'Pturatape fpeake , fpeech is a peculiar property of the rational creature lingo ,tarry Speech is or ought to be the immediate Tile or birth of reafon. bus ir,q Words are conceived in the mind, and born at the tongue. And mnri'tf in, words are the image ofthe mind. We may fee what work is tellclum pro.. wrought in the mind, by - that which is floken by the tongue. The Priam eflfg° [nape ofa_mans heart (when he fpeakes himfeif) comes out atmiel12,, his mouth. And therefore before a man (peaks, he meditates. 1V Magna oft raet dilation is the conceptionof words, as (peaking is the product ion ontoSoration,i.;: of them. Thus the Lord chargesJofhua (Chap. t. 8) The book,,`cogra;o. of the latYfhall not depart out of thy month- but thou (halt médi- ate therein doj ond. night. One would think it should"lather have; - non focus ar
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