Chap:i 5. An Expo f tion upon the Bonk of J O B. . Verf.5. at another time you fee all going in as fail as they pleafe , you will fay the Porter is out of the way. Thus while the fear of the Lord ftands like a Porterat the door of the Soul, we keep our thoughts and ktions incompafs; we examine what goes Nanolsan elf ur in and what comes out ; but when once that'sgone , order is urtedecearn in gone. Any thing may be laid, any thing may be done by him, quo pecces,eurn who fears not, whoprays not. Thou haft cad off fear , and re- iPf dau @c r firained prayer, for thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity , out it iniquurntßo. comes, as fair as it can : I need not tell thee wherein thou Vatab, haft offended, thy mouth pours it out. verbal Hence Note,7hat the evil which is in the heart will out at the orà tui.Scpt. mouth, unlefs prayer and thefear of Godreftrain it : As the good that is in the heart will come out of the mouth , efpeci- ly when prayer unlocks the mouth.. David prays, Lord open thou my lips, and then he undertakes for his mouth, that it (hailPhew forth thepraife of God (Pfal. 45. t.) My heart is in. dicing a goodmatter ( the heart doth this in prayer or medita- tion) what follows, My tongue is as the Pen ofa readyWriter: Heavenly thoughts in the heart, (hoot out at the tongue in heavenly words; When theheart is devifing of a good mat- ter, the tongue will be fwift to fpeak , and let all to a good tune. Thus allo while the heart is inditing an evil matter, the tongue runs to evil : Such a man needs not learn from others, skodi, vie to he path a root of bitternefs in himfelf : Hence our Saviour to oratio.Mens concludes (Match, 12 37.) By thy words thou (halt be condem- malatinguatn ned, and by thy words thou(halt be juftified Why (bah we be nmovdr iros condemnedby our words ? The Prophet complains of thole P oboe fè I whomade a man an offender for a word ; I anlwer;our wòrds ncq;.e atiud os thew what we are, they declare our hearts , as a man may be Lganutquom difcovered of what Country he is, when he (peaks, fo of what gco`! `nterwr fpirit he is. î he tongue is the Scholar of the heart, and ffeal;r f ñg %irfegnf what that diblates : Aman is juftly condemned by evil words, becaufe they teflifie that he is evil. Thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity. Obferve fecondly, There areforce iniquities which are more properly ours than forge others are.. Thine iniquity : Job_had(as Eliphaz 'kerns to fuggefi) a kind of peculiarity in it. As Ceod owns Tome people in a fpecial manner ; though all the peo- ple of the earth be his, yet they are his beloved people ; So man
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