Part I. OF A METONYMY OF TilE CAUSE. s 2 . '!"be organical Caufe ar Iuflmmeut is put f or the Thing tjfefled by if. · THE MOU'I"H is·put for Speech, or Teflimony, as Deut. xvii. 6. At the M outh of two or three if/ituejjes, jbs/1 he that is worthy of Death be put to death, but at the Mouth of oneWitmfs, hefoallnot be put to death, that is, by the Witnefs or Tdlimony of two or \hr~e,_&c. So Deut. xix. 15. One lf/itncfs Jball not arife againjl a Ma11 for any Iniquity, or f or any Si!l~ in any Sin that hefiuueth: At the M?uth of two Witneffes or at tb.t , Mouth of three Witnejjesfoal/ the Matter be ejtab!ijhed-wluch IS expounded. Matt. xvu1. 16. and John viii. 17. 2. The MOUTH is put for a Command or Prefcription, Gen. xlv. 21. And Jofeph gave tbem Waggons according to the Mouth of Pharaoh, &c. that is,_ as we tranOato it, accordiilg to the Commandmmt of Pharaoh. Exod. xvu. 1. And the Children of lfrael;our1Jitd according to the Mouth, (that is, the Commandment) of the Lord. SoN_umb. iji. •6, 39· and xx. 24. and xvii. 14. D~ut. i. 26, 43· and xxxiv. 5· So Mofes the Ser·vant of the Lord, died there in the Land of Moab, according to the Mouth of the Lord, that is, as:cord– ing to the Word of the Lord. Upon which, Sanflius fays in his Comment on lfa. xlix. 'Iherefore they do not rightly judg;e, who from the Hebrew Reading fay, that Mofes died in the Kifs of the Lord: for that Tradition is not from the Hebrew Text, but from the 'fargum which is attributed to Jonath. Uziel, who renrlers '!l-))1 at the Mouth of the Lord, Ad Ofculwn v erbi Domini, that is, according to the Kifs of the Mouth of the Lord. But what is fpoken of the Mouth of the Lord, is better to be referred to the Trope An– thropopathia, of which we !hall hear hereafter. 'Ihe 'I"ONGUE is. put for Speecb, Prov. xxv. I 5· A foft Tongue breaketh the Bones, that is, amild, civil, and courtc<)US Speech; fo Jer. xviii. 18. *Let usfmite him for that 'fongite (l11VJJ) that is, for his importunate, unleafonable and odious Spe_ech. But more efpecially for the Idiom or particular Language of Nations. Afls ii. 4, 11. And they were all filled with the Holy-Ghofl, and begmt to jpeak with other 'Tongues,.as the Spirit gave them Utterance. Cretes and Arabians do we hear them jpeak in our 'Tongues the great Things (or wonderful Works) of God. It is alfo put for the Gift offlrange Languages. In my Name foal/ they raft out Devils, they foal/[peak with new Tongues, Mark xvi. 17. and 1 Cor. xiv. 19. Yet in the Church I had rather jpeak five Words with my f)'nderflanding, that by mJ' Voice I might teach others alfo, than ten thoufand Words in mt.unknown ,Tongae. That is, in a Language which the People u!lLior!l:and not, &c. The LIP is put for Speech, Gen. xi. 1. And the whole Earth was of one Lip, and of on< Word, that is, of one Language, and of one Speech, or Idiom of fpeaking, the Chaldee fays of one 1ongue, and one Speech. That the Hebrew Language is meant here, (which in lfa. xix. t8. is called the [Lip of Canaa11] we tranOate it Language by the fame Tropo: And which by the Targ. J erufal. and R. Salomon upon the Place is called the Holy 'T•ngue) is !hewed elfewhere. Neither was Hebrew the peculiar Name of that Language in thofe Times, becaufe there was no Need of a Term of Di!l:intlion, there being no 0ther Speech in the World, till after the Confufion of Tongues, and fcattering of the People at Babe!. Prov. xvii._7· A· Lip of Excellency does not become a Fool; much lefs a Lip of ~·ing, a Prznce; that 1s, a worthy and excellent Speech does not bewme, or is not to be expect– ed from a Fool, much lefs lhould a noble or brave Mind tell Lies. lfa: xxxiii. I\)· /1 People_ of [a deeper Lip] fo the Hebrew, than thou canjl perceive, .that 1s, fuch a; lpeakfo oblcurely, that you cannot under!l:and them; as Pagninus ren– ?ers It. See Pro·v. Xll. 19. 'Ihe Lip of'Truth foal/ be ejtabli/hed fo•· ever, but a lying_ Tongue zs but fo~a Moment_. Job xii. 20. He removeth away [the Lip} of the Faithful, &c. fo it is in ,the Hebrew. • Percttll:amur eum propter ijlam Li11guam, hoc ejl, firmonem ilium imporwnum f.:J no6is odit{rtm. So fome trantlate (hu Paffage, and fo. it is in the Marg,in of our Bibles. . · C 'fhe
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