3'l VIlls.,. .A1tEX~ofitit1l, fl'ith N~tt:J CH·4P..J. 4.9· I 1. Th~Pfalmifi f"ith,'P{ttl.3l•l9· Be notlik$ horJe-~11d 7fJH.lf:~ lfhofe TJ)()N/rh mufl he b.eld 'With bit and bri4.l,e, left the1 co111e- 'JNr. t.hee: To ~eep them f.rom doing harm, they tnu.f.t be-held inwit~ l>it and briqle. So there is a wantonnefs,. by which we-are apt to, kjckt;wi,th the heel.agaJ»fl God;s- Precepts., ,Peut.,J~·~5· '"Tis,Gods m€r£y ~hat w~ a-re ~efirained: : This patwal fiercenef$maybe·di£., cerned to bt abattl<.l bY, th~ guidan~eof the toagu~~ Veffe·S• Even fo the t-o"·~u.e is a little member, 4,J bruJfteth greA,t t-hings-: behold howgreAt • m~~tter a.littlefir~ k.J:nd(eth! · Evenfo the tongue ii • little member~] Here is the reddition of th_e.Similitude; the tongne is abndle and rudder:,f"a/L in, bu:lk..., and yet of t;ret~t, ufe~- · The Apofiles word isp.~:;:ttA~X~ boa.fteth great thi111gs·; t.his ied<f~ is the ptroper fignification of ~he w,ord. Ey.the for-ce Qf the C,ontext flt1J#es fhouldi have. faid, d~~t~ gtre~t.t. things; for the: thing·to be proved was., that he that c~n goven1 his tongue, is able to go.v{'rn his whole body. To take off tbe preju– dice that might arife-againlt fuch a Propo6·tio.n, he proou~nh t:wo Similitude~, wherein he would inGnuate, that tbings lit~.le 1;>-y good management-n;~ay ~of g.reat u(e; and thereupon,_ip the-accolllmo– dation of th({ Sim!litu.d~s to the prefcmt purpofe" he fhol}ldhavein– fen:~d, nhat:the JJ,tde mftmb.er the (0ngue, well ordex;ed, <:aQ de great thing~,. that is,. th~ goverament ef it is of fingula.ruf€ inmans life: But be· rathet~,. andtba~ according to.the ufe of tbe Apotlles, re~ellt· cnh the·mail'l Pcopol1cioA tl(l (uch term.s a.s imply,aAOEher Argum€nt:. .An4bo~ftet/; !f':.C.# t,hings· : as if he had (aid, lfbe tong1:4e wir:nef{– cth for it felf; for by it mm trumpet out their(onfideuc<rs afld pre– fumption$:,, and hoaA they ~obring g~eat thipgs to pafs : Andhe infianee·th in.boa.fiiog, not only as moll acconxn0date to his_ o;i«t– ter, but. I,. Becao{e 'tis the ufual finef the tongue; tb.is is a·mem– ber t.hat m0£t of all fet:¥eeh.pride,,a fin from.w~ncemo.fi 6fr;he er– rors and mifcarriages of the ton ne proceed. z. Rf<:aufe- this is ufually.the fin of ~ho(e that have no command of their fpir1ts a\ld ' JLCHons: Hypocrites and vain men are proud boafiers; FlAttering lips, and th( tongue·that ffi'e"keth p~t~~d t.hings;~~ft je~nedtoge.eber, Pfol.u.J. So R~111v.. T4·~· In. tht mou..t.bof thefQ.q_/tlfh itth#. r-qelof p.Yide. T£Qe grl\Cc huAlbletht falfe. p~thup. Behold
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