37~ Ob[er7l. I. VB 1\. s.7,8. An Expofltiot~, with Notes CHA '·3'· or the Viper Paul, A a. 28. but what is ufual and ordinary and falleth out often mcommon experience. ' But the tongue caN ~eo man tame,] The oldPehtg-ianJ, wholy wrefiing this place, did read it as an Interrogation , as ifthe fence were, Man can came all other things, and can he not tpen tame him.. {eJf? which is quite contrary to the Apofiles (cope, which is .&o £hew, what an unruly and an untraaable evil the tongue is. 0thers,to avoyd the feeming hadhnefs of the fentence, fay, He fpeak– eth of otht::r mens tongues; who can fiop them? as if it were a faying ofa like fence with that Pfa/. 110. 3. WhAt foal/ we give to thee ? or 'What fb;~~/1 be d~ne to thee, th11uft~lfe to11gne ? How thall I prevent it? But this alfo doth not agree with the Apofiles {cope, ·who cloth not lhew how we fhould bridle other mens tongues, but guide onr own. The mean~ng · is then, qoman can do it ofhimfeiJ; and we have not fuch an abfolute concurrence of the divine grace as to do ic wholy. ·"- . l't is anunru'J ev~l? l x.~x.a, ri.~td.1~~e.1~v, fome take .it c~tu(aUy, "tJS the caufe ot fedttton and unrulmefs ;. but rather tt figntfieth what was formerly cxprelfed, an evil that' wil1 notbe held in : Tis . a· metaphor taken from beafls that are kept within rayls ar aha-ins. God hach in the flrutture of the mouth appointed adouble rayl to it,teeth and·lips ; and by grace layd many refiraints upon it;, and yet it breaketh out. Full ofdeadlJ po]fon,] 'Tis an allufion to fuch creatures- as hart l>y payfon. The tongue is as deadly, and bath as much need eobe tamed, as venomousbeafis: B-:fides, fome beafis carry their poyfon in their tongues, as the Afp in a bbdder under the tongue, which when th<ly bite is broken, and then the poyfon·comech out; there– fore 'tis faid, Pfal. 140·3· Tht] have foarpenedtheir tongHJS IU 11 Serpent, Adder! pojjo11 i1 undtr their lip!. The Notes are thefe : From the feventh Verfe you may ob· ferve~ I. The traB,blenefs of the /Je'AflJ to man, ana the difobedie_nce ofman toGod: Beafis are tamed,Serpents are charmed by our skill; but we are not charmed by all the witchcrafts and alluremems of Heaven. P[a/:.58.4,5· Thezr pi)J{on u lik._e the poJfoNofaSerpent; they are lik._e the deaf Adder which ftopp' th her tAr; Whichwil/ not hark!n to the voyce ofCharmers; charmi1fg never fo wi{tiJ. •Tis an allufion to the fa!hi~n of the Afp, whichwhen he feeth the ~ - ···· · · -· - · ·· Charmer
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