Vs as.6. A~ E~pofition, 'With NoP'es full of light,(§-c. Where-hody is put for all theatlions of the Soul· if the underfianding and aim be rightly diretled~ .an -the motions ar~ right. Now the tongue defileth this whole body, as it.perfwadeth to fin:; or dfe uttereth and bewrayeth fig, and fo fh€weth the whole man tobe defiled ; l t alfo engageth to fm; the tongue often eogageth the hand to fmite with the fifi of wickednefs, and by its brawling and contention other members are involved in fin and in– conveniences. So nlro for other fins, men fi>eak evil.and then com– mi~ its one member infected, ma.keth way for the corrutJtion and defilement of another ; and the tongue being off'O Cover~ign an.influence, taintethall. . Andfett"eth on ftreJ He theweth the further efficacy of this , tongue-fire; itdoth·not only black and fally,but itdevoureth and Eldlroyeth. He elltpreffeth tt ·by thisprafe, fotrtethonpre, becaufe ef the comparifon fore-going : and •cis very proper, partly in re- . gardofthe effects of the tongue, which are ufually falfe heats, plf– fion, wrath, raging;violence; conttary to which is that ~ooljpirit which Solomon faith is in the prudent man. Partly ,jn regard of the tongues manner of working in contentions, •cis rapid and violent; men an: by the tongue tranfported and heated into inconveniences. Anti •cis a1fo ·diforderly, like raging fire, cauGng great confuGons ; and therefore in any heat we had need look to the, rife and quality of it : Be fure to watch over your fpirit when it beginneth to grow furious and inflamed. .· The ·whole courfo'(}f nature,] In ithe original •tis ~Tei'X/V 'Tn' ')tev{r~'al~, whichfome render,the wheel ofour nativit], by which he intendech the whole <:ourfe of our Jives; there is no .-flion, no ·age, no eftat-e l'ri~il~ged from the1nfluence of it. TheSyriacIn• tetpteter ·hath,al/ our generatirnzs, as ifthe fence were, that all·ages .ef the world ~re confcious to the evils of the tongue, and 1 C3n pro– .dace infiances :and txperiences of it. But the word rather figni.. .fieth our 11atural courf~ , or the wheel of humane converfa.. tien. AnJ it itfeton:fire ()f Hell.] He tneweth whence the tongue bath all this malice and mifchieij fr,omH-ell, lihat.is,.from the 1Jevil, who is the father oflJes, ithe·amhor of malice amd v·irulencn >and doth by the tongue;·as a'dextrous infirument,or fit fervant, tranfmit lyes;and Oanders,and £lrifes;for inflaming·and1nkindling the wotld; Some r~ad, q;1.o'}'ltop.bn, it fo~l/be{e1 an fire { H'ell., as implying thi
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