1/erfe:f. PROVERBS. 3:9. vniuíl te(timonie gocth about. to confirme that which an o- ther hath vntruely fuggefled,(hallnot be vnpssniflied,but plagued either (boneror late, with force temporarie penaltieof flume and tniferie in this: world, or with eternall perdition offoule and bodie in theworld to cotne.An.4 a for, r of 1es,whiChvfeth his tongue to-falfehood,how artificially,and with what lhewes, andcolours roarer, though inprivate, Th11not efeape, !hall not be alwaies free From ppunifhment, thoughby fl.tttcringoft i in.. felfe, he thinketh the finne not dangerous : and though by meanes ofhis wit, and prefent profperitic, he feemeth ableto preferuehimfelfe in fafetie: Doti. r. 1Iowfoeuer fa] f:, witneífes preuaile againfl others, they ílää11 be lure to fpeede ill themfelues. . The repetition of thisfentence in fo many places, daeth clearely teiIi fie theveritieof it. The Cellefame words with this our text, are in theninthverfe ofthis chapter : and the fame. matter inmoreperemptoric words, is in the eight and twentith verfeofthe one andtwentith chapter, . where it is (aide, thata. fa1,Tewitnesu14Ilperil%. Firfl,thc finnethat he committeth isvery-grecuous,and the Reafoni mifchiefe that he worketh is very noyfome. He tranfgrelfeth again(} God, whole iudicehecaufeth tobepreuerted : andof fendethagainit the judge, whole fentence caufeth to bemil- placed : and trefpatÍeth againft the innocent, whole ight he . caufeth tobe taken from him : and lb he procureth a judge- ment vpon the (late : and fo he is hurtfull to the focietie of manki ìde. Secondly, theoffendour that is guiltieofthis finne, is very 2 odious to the Lord, being ofthe number ofthofe whom he Prou.6.16. kateth,andwhom he faieth hisfoulsabhorreth. Thirdly, he requireth the magif#rate to lay the famepunifh. 3 relentvpon him, as he thoughttohaue brought vponhis bro- Dcutag,zr. Cher. And that nocornpafftonbe (hewed untohim, butlifefor lfe, . 47efor eye,toothfor tooth,handforhand,footeforfoote. Fourthly, though the magifirate doe fpare him, and 4, nomiferiecomevponhim in this life,yet hehimfelfe.will not Bare him hereafter,- but fetteth him in the rancke of them Pfal,15,:3; which.
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