Chap. 3 r. An Expof;tion upon the Book of j o x, Verí, t o. 403 expreflTed bycovering tbefeete ( Judg. 3. 24. ) and Adultery, by going in to a woman, in the Title of the fifty and fiat Plalme ; Here by grinding, and bowing downe. The Apofile gives this charge to Saints (Eph. 5.3.) Butfornication and ati tine/cane- wife or covetoufnefTe, let it not be once named among you as becon. eth Saints , and (v. 12. ) It ze a /name tofpeake ofthole things which are done of them in ferret. What the Gentiles were not a- fhamed todoe, the Apollle was (and would have us to be) a- fhamed to fpeake. Some fins areof fo ill aflame and fo reprove- able, that they fhould not be named, but to reprove them, and ícarce then by their owne names. The Lord chargeth the chil- dren of Ifrael (Exod.23. i 3.) Ina!! things that Ibavefaydun- to you be circumfpett : and makeno mention of the names cf other gods, neither let it be heardout ofthy mouth. That is, e3'tiler thou (halt not at all fpeake of them, or not without forne note ofdif- like or teftimonyof thyutter deteftationof them. In which fence alto the Lord faith( Hof. 2. 17. ) Iwill take away the Names cf Betalimout ofher mouth, and they /hall no more be remembred by their Name. Evili words (faith the Apofile out of a heathen Poet, z tor. i5. 33.) or communication, corrupt good manners. And fo they doe both as to the worfhip of God, and common practice among men. When blafpeming God is fpoken of, The Hebrew text expreffeth it by way of contrary (peaking, that is, by a wordwhich fignifies to bleffe, as was (hewed at the fecond Chapter of this Booke: When 7,bs wife fayd to him (aswe tran- flate) Curfe god anddye, the Original is Bleffe Gr4 and cite. To curie God is an aá fo execrable, that the Jewes abhorr'd to mention it in any way, butthat which is figurative; fo likewife Flebrai nultxns the Hebrew word for whore or harlot, is afeparate or Holy wo- ho ent ProPri- man. Theywere loth to foule their mouthes with fuck a loath- uP ' "In fame creature in a proper dreffe offpeech ; Or to thew howcon- Moyfes lib, 3. trary all ought to befrom her they fpakeof her only by contra- Doaorii du- ; es. TheSpaniards call aharlot in fcorneor deteliation, Theho- hion'm. c.ro, pourable woman, that is, the bafe woman. As the Scripture (peaks rrix a'Ic(J-il or words ill matters, fo fhould we. Chriltians fhould feafon their .4ntiphr..fin fpeeches with modefly ; And their words fhould minifler grace quia minime mot offence to their hearers. What(hall we fay, then, of thole, fantla eel per who, not only,broadly name the fowleda&soffin, but a& them Euphemtfmttm; In Honorata broadly ; if, as the Apof lefaith, (itch fins lhould not be fo much qva¡ minime F f f 2 as hohorata.
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