Chap.29. An Expefition npon.the Book of 3 o B. Verf.rr. 499 his voyce nomore, d will make thy tongue cleave to the roofofthy mouth. As if the Lord had faid, this rebellious people lovenot to be reproved, and they (hall not. The greatefi reproof that can be given a people,is,to tell them they !hall be reproved no more. That tongue of thine which was a (harp fword (hall be lockt up in its fcabbard,the roofof thy mouth ; this is their deadly wound,they (hall be wounded with it nomore. So then, To fay their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth, is an emblematical expreflion either of a commanded or relolved forbearance to fpeake. The contrary whereof we find (Pfal.r4.o. 3.) They have fharpened their tongues like a Serpent: Adders poyfn is under their lips. To fharpcn or whet the tongue, imports the keenefl and extreamefi kind of dimity or talkativeneffe, much more to fharpen the tongue as a Serpent. Naturalifls tell us, that no living creature flirres his tongue fo fwiftly as a.Serpenc, and Serpents are there- fore laid to have a treble tongue, becaule moving their tongues fo fall, they feeme to have three tongues. 7hsyfharpen their tonguesas Serpents, that is, they fpeak thick and threefold, they fling and poyCon me with their tongues. That in the Plaime,they havefharpened their tongues like a Serpent, and this in the Text, Their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth, are theourmoll con- trarietiesabout the tongue. 'risPaid in one of the ancient comi- cal Poets, That in agreat all'embly one called to the cryer, Make this people AllEare, that is, Make themfilent, let them do nothing Pace jam nunc but beare ; Let not the leaf+ murmure or motion of a tongue be Prato onu'sm heard among them. Thus the Nobles were filent when fob was auretumpopu. prefenr, they were all care, their tongue cleaved to the roof of their !"fi' Piaui, mouth. In thisverfe we have three orders or ranks of men ; Here ate, Fitl+, Princes ; Secondly, Nobles ; Thirdly, The chiefGover- nour,job,above them both,honoured and attended by both.How high was jab who had Princes and Nobles belowhim Hence.. Note ; Pod heath rankedmen infeveraldegrees and orders. He hash not only let all Magifirares above the people,. but he hash let force Magrflrates above others:as the earth isnot cafl in- to a level, but into mountain; and plains, into hills andvalues ; fo the men or inhabitants of the earth are not placed all in a level, Sffa force
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