220 Cháp.ió AnExpofition upon the Book of J O B; Verf,3, there two go always together, and where there are not , no- Projicitamput, thinggoes out of the mouth but winde ; we fay of all words Int &e. which are not followed with action, Words are but winde , we. may fay- fo alto ofall words which.are not accompanied with reafon. Secondly, Words are windy when they have much pride,, and fwelling conceitednefs in them ; the Scripture calls filch Valid plena words, Swelling words of vanity;That which (wells our hearts, jpititufuperbi. will quickly (well our.lips ; pride Bothboth. Pride is a winde ague' within us, vain words are a.winde withouLus; the, proud man knows not how to cafe himfelf of his winde within , but by, breaking it out inwords. Thirdly , Words are windy when they have much pailion in them, when theyare angry and furious ; an angry man blu hers rather than (peaks, and makes a noire rather than a dif- courfe. While David, (Pfal;39. 2,3.) was dumbwith filence, while heheld his peace fromgood,his fbrrowwas furred, his heart was hot within him_, andwhile he was muting the fire k ordled. While fore are even hoarfe with fpeaking, while thrycannot hold their peace from evil , their anger is timed, their hearts are limning within them , and all their talk is only a wind blowing without them. We read of a firange diftemper in two forts of men , who ought of all others to be moll compofed and temperate (Hofea. 9. 7.) theProphet is afoot, the fpiritual man is madd : Our Tranilators put in the Margin, The man of thefpirit:for Kuach. in Hebrew, fignifieth both the winde that blows in the air, and the fpirit of God which moveth in our hearts : We take that fenfe, Thefpiritasalman,or the man of the. fpirit ; that is, the man that, pretends to have, or thould have the fpirit of God ( his bufinefs lying wholly in fpirituals) this manes mat he is fo far from aging to the height of thofe Graces' Which the Spirit gives , that he aasbelow that reafòn which na- ture gives. Yet the Original may be rendred thus ( and fodivers lear- ned Hebricians, render it) The man of winde,or the windy man as mad: Angeris a fhort madnefs, and he that (peaks angerly, is in danger to (peak madly. Job's Friends were not men of winde , nor were they mad, and the words which they fpake had ageneral fenfe and favor of. ruacï.
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