erfel:9. PROVERBS. ! for euer : though they workeour trouble, or death, as they did Naboths,yet trot our deflruc4ìon,as theycould not doe his: but their ownecull tongues will et eft mifchiefeagainfl them - felucs, for puntlltment of bole,and perdition of foulc,for e- uer. Then if thouwoulde ll rule thy tongue better, that it draw thee not intofuch daugers,thou mull not Cuff-a. finne to raigne in thy life, nor to rule in thy heart, which will comnsaund thy mouth, and oucrrule thy tongue: and theLord by his righte- ous prouidencedothmanic times giue thAna ouer to the fol lie andviolence of their lippes, to their Ihame and miferie, which will notbe guided by the wifedome andvertueofhi4 lippes, to their glorieand happines. VetfeS. Thewords of thetalebearerareasfï<roak, .r , and they gee downeinto the inwardpartsof the6ellie. THe words ofthe tale-bearer] themaliciousaccufati ós which whifpercrs doe fecretlymutteragainfl men behinde their backcs,are as fßroakes , as wounds that aregiuen by wea- pons: they :IOC themas much hurt by fecking their inf.imie,or trouble, or by alienating the mindes , and good opinions of their fricndes and neighbours ft um them, as if they had (mit- ten themwith a !word , and they geedown into the inward parts of ttebelly : theyare likevntodartes,wherewithmen arc dange- roufliewowided, piercing (as it were) into theverie intrailes. Sec Chapt. i á. vette i g. Vetfe 9. .Eden he that is Hallcentin hisbofinefre, is a brother toa rafter. Li E th :tt carrieth himfelfe Ilothfullie in the worksofhis cal- :11 being without all careand indeuourto fet forwards hisaffaires,is brat/5,ertoawafizer,is like to him that prodi- gally wafleth his fubfiance, as if he were his owvne brother,and flan a° certainely, though it maybe, not fo fpcedily, come to pouertie,as bee. q A llothfull perfon, fandeth in the (late ofanvnthrift. C Though
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