ob[erv. 8. QJ.treafures by a lying tongue is a vanitJ_, !offe_d t~ ~nd frn ofthem that love death. The woman at home, tn tdle t11tlmg,and vain cm– fures. Minifiers in the Pulpit often profiitute the facrednefs of their funtHon to the corruption of the tongue, by preaching for gain, i by being r~tfh with their mouths ttJ utter IUJ) thing before God, by being furiouOy paffionate, &c. There is tJo temper fo meek and humble,but may be p<trverted. Holy Mofas, the meekefr man up– on Earth, was angry at the waters of firife, and brake out into paf– fion; . Pfai. I o6. 33· He jp11k! fdnitdvifed~nvith his lips. Meek Chrifiians in a difeafe how froward are they? injurious even to God himfelf. Davidwell prayeth in a great crofs, 0 Lard, k..eep the door ofmy-lips, PfoJo14 I. 3. Well then, none of us lhoulcl think thefe Exhortations unneceiTary: 'Tis a vain fcoff, and it ar- – gueth horrible Oightnefs of fpifit, to charge this only upon t,he fe– male Sex; through the firength and pregnancy of imagination or fancy: they may be given to talk; but you fee men, the_befland higheit, are apt to offend. The Apofile faith, It{etteth on.ftrc the whole courfe of ruzturt: No part ofman more noxious and· hurtful, no part of aman more fierce and unbridled, no part more eafie and apt to err. 8. A wick.ed torJgue is of.tn infernal original. The Prophets fires, as I tolJ you, were kindled from Heavtn; like the chaf\: fir~s of the Roman Veil:als, which iflet out, were to be re-inktndledby a Sun-beam. In all hea-ts 'cis good re fee whence they come: Heat in good matters out of a fdf. ifh aim, is a coal fetched not from the Altar,but the](itchin. Calumnies and reproaches are a fire blown up by the breath of Hell. The Devil hath been k a !yarfrom the beginning, and an accufcr of the brethren, and he loveth eo make o– thers like himfelf. Learn then to abhor revilings, contentions, and reproaches, as you would Hell flames; trefe are but the eruptions of an infernal fire : Slanderers are theDev1ls Slavts and fnf.l:rumenrs. ·Again, if blafied with-contumely, learn to Oight it: -Who would careforthe fuggefiions of the .father of lyes? The murther~ris a ·IJ'llr, In fhort,that which cometh trom Hell will go thither a'gah~ Mat. 5· 22. who(oever fhaltfoy, Thot~fool, fhall be ·in danger of Hell fire. Wrath being expre!fed in aword of reproach, you fee -how·deadly and grievous it is. By nourilhing an ev:il tongue, yon do nourilh and keep inHell· flame, which. hereafter wm breakout to your d~Lhuttion.
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