erssellman : which (harpen theirtongues like aSerpent, etdderrpoifon ió vnder theirlrppes. And withal] let vs put on innocency :for that wiit repel! their ilrokes, andward them off, that they fhall neuer hurt vs deadly. True it is that none are fo much laidat, as they which aremoll blameletre, the greatell accufations, and threat- Dings, and Ccoffes are again;} them : but yet they efcape bell of all others, becaufe they are leaf} liable to all thofekind of cuffed fpeakings, But the tongue ofwifemen, 'c. It is thepropertyofgood men Doc`!, z to vie their lippes to doe good with them. This point hath been in fome part already handled, in the fecond claufeof the tixth verfe, and we purpofe,ifit pleafc God,tohand more largely vpon it in the fifteenth chapter, verte4 where is raid, that a. zvholfo le tongue ss a tree of life.. Verne 19. The lippeoftruth (hallbeehabit for euer, and a ying, tongue but for a monment, THe meaning is,that fuchas fpealce the truth in vprightneffe- will not varie in their talke, but tell the fame talc againe, and, bee like to themfelues in that which they Ihall fay, whereas liars- be inand our, affirming anddenying, and (peaking contradic`i- ons in. the farematter. Or,elie truemen are coniiant in their words,. D . They got not from that which they haue well fpoken, as they will not (land to that'which they haue failed in, as lob profetfed ofhimfelfe, raying, Iwilllaymyhandvponmy mouth. Once haue I(ken, but Iwill anfivar no more, yea twice, but Iwill proceed no further. Thiscaufed the Apofile S.PauIfoferioufly to cleare him- ielFe ofall lightne{fe andvnconflancy,thattheCorinthians fhould haue no fufpícion that with him (hould beeyea, lea, and nay nay, but that his promifes, and preaching, and purpofes were liable and 6rme, andvnchangeable.. Fir(}, their matter will helpe their memorie : for that which is Bieafos, truth once, will-bee truth euer, fo that the lame ground and lub- ieá remaineth uiill to repeat, andreiterate, as was to be fpoken of stthe beginning. Y 3 Sesondlyo.
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