Ghap.15. An Expofttion uponthe Book of J O:B. Verf. 3o: 167 mouth. His paffionate difempered fpeeches ¡hall undoe him, while he fpeaks , either outragioufly , and blafphemoufly a- gaina God, or falsely anti fediriósu#ly towards man , his ruine enters at the opening of his lip's. The motion of the breath is the preferverof life,and while á au orir breath lafls, life tails ; yet many a mans life had lifted longer f ie: faN had it not been for his breath. The wicked mans breath proves verb' qua" his death, and his tongue which hath been a fcour e to o- thers , becomes a Sword to himfelf. His words poffibly have lint inrorel®r, wounded , and his breath hath been the death of many : But now he is wounded by his own words , and crufht to death by the weight of his own breath , or by the fall of his own tongue upon him. So the Pfalmia gives it ( Psalm. 64 B. ) Theyfhail make their own tongues tofall upon themfelves ; that is, Their own words ¡hall be brought as a Teftimony against them, and condemn them. The tongue it a littlemember ( faith the Apottle James, Chap,3.5.) and therefore a light member; yet it falls heavy as heavy as lead. A man were better havehis Houle fall upon him , than that (in this fenle) his tongue ¡hould fall upon him. Some have been prcfl"ed to death, be- cause they would not (peak, but flood mute before the Judge ; but more have been preffed to death by ;their finful freedom, or rather licentioufnefs in fpeaking..;, this hath brought them to judgment, and cat' them in judgment : Their tongue bath fallen upon them , and by the breath of their mouth , they have goneaway. Laiïly ( but I will not flay upon it, because the Original doth not well bear it) thefe words are call into the form of a fìmilitude , describing the manner how the wicked man and all his. glory ¡hall go away ; even as a breath, or as his breath As the breath of his mouth heshall go away; that is, he (hall go fpeedily, he (hall go fuddenly : A breath is loon fetcht , it is both come and gone in a moment ; A breathingtime,is a Pro- verbiál,far a little time,( much like that , In the twincklingof an.eye. ) Thus man comes and goes, is come and gone (efpe- ciallya wicked man who is driven by the wrath of God) as foon as feen by others , as foon as he hathbreathed himfelf a Jrwill not be long ere he goes , andhe will not be long a go- ing. For as the breath. of his moutb-he*all goaway, The
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