VB R.S.6. An Expojition, with Notes it con~urreth t? .others, by commanding, counfelling, perfwading' feducmg,&c. CIS made the pandar to lufi and fin. Oh how vile are . we, if there be a world of fin in ·the ·tongue? in one member? c Laurent. i, c Some have reckoned as many fins in the tongue, as there are letters lo&.' in the Alphabet. Where lball we find a rule and account, to num. ber up the ,fins of every member? All the imagin~ttions 11re evil, I \ Gen.6.3. As there is falmefs in every drop of the Sea, and bicter- . d Dan.9. 2.7. nefs in every branch of wormwood, there is an.doverfjreading of . abominations throughout .the whole man. Again, we may confi– tPJaJ;~s.x . der the ingratitudt;: ofman; our tongue is e ourglory,~tis the mem– ~~mpa:Cd~tf ber by which we difcover and lhew forth our reafon, it ficrech us - Aeh 1. 16. 1 for commerce : Speech maketh man fa fociab!e creature, yet there f "A.. 9 tr:i.. is a world ofiniquity in the tongue. ' fftJ'iT~r · · ~v f!Vq'H 'C:ov ?r~J\hJx.ov. A rift-. Pol. lib. 1. cap. 2· . Obforv.3. 3• From that [Anddefileth] Sin is adefilem;ntand ahlot. ) We hear of filthy communication, ji!PhJ lucre, and filthy lafts; the very lhew of ·fin is called filthinefs oftpe fle./h, 2 Cor.7. r. Scan– dalous finners are the fiain of their fociety; thefe are JPots in your love feafls ; "cwill be your o~ndifgrace. When you give up your \ · felves to the pratlife of fin,you get to your {elves ablot, Deut.32;5. Their]pot is not tU the [pot of Gods People. And 'twill be your etern~l difadvanuge, Rev.21.27. And there fhall in no wi{e mt~r i~to it t~tny thing th~tt defileth. In lliort, fin is {uch a filthine{s, \ that 'cis alhamea of it fdf; it feeketh to hide it felf from thofe that mofi love it, and goeth lhrowded under the difguife of virtue. There needeth no other argument to make it odious, then to fee it in its own coloors. · Ohforv. 4· · 4· Tongue ji11s do much defile. They defile .others; we com– municate evil to others, either by carnal {uggefiions, or provoke . them to' evil by our paffion. They defile our felves; by fpeaking -~~~;;c!~:;min- ~vil of them,'-;'~ contratlguil~ upon our felves; eit~er th~y~clefe!ve wrrit~perando, tt not, and fo us aly~, wh1c.h IS a great blot; g or Jf the cnme-t.m– -,tmm facu ob~ po(ed be true, ·thetr fin IS made ours by an undue fpeakmg 1oquendo. of it. 0/Jfervat, 5• , 5• From that [the whole bot{y,]Anevil tongue bath a.great i~· fiuence upon other memben. When a man fpeaketh evll, .he wtll commit it; when the tongue hath the boldnefs to talk of fin, the rcfi of the members have the: boldnefs to ~a: it: 1 Cor! 1 5·33. Evil · · words
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