EpiffleofS. PadtoT?tt>cr. C111tP.3.3. fkrange, curious,or odde,fauouring ofpride, iighmes,vanity, or fingu 367 laritie; as when women willhaue a fall-lion by theinfelues contrarie to the common and comely fafhionof others: all which is a difgrace to the profeflìon, and the fiunc ofmoll women , whole behauiour expreffeth littleholyneffe. Pre. Whereasmany will not beperfwaded, that we can glue them rules outof theword , for chis or that guile, word , looke, fafhion, &c. and require particular and exprefíc wordsof Scripture, why we fhould di(ltke one fafhion more then another, or approoue of one aboue ano- ther : we feehence we haue generali ruleswhereby euery particular is to be fquared: as i.Cor.Io.31. If it make to the glorieof God : Phil. 4.8. whatfoeuerthingr are true,honeff,ofgood report : and here whatfoeuer is befeeming or vnbefeeming holines; whereby the whole behauiour muff be examined. Xotfalfeaccnferr,] Well faith one , that a manof an euill tongue, is abeafl in the forme ofa man, himfelfe is a ferpent , and his tongue his fling ; but here theword teachethvs that he is worfe , cuen a Denill in "c °'`1' the fhape ofa man : forby this one viceof the tongue, he fo liuely rc- fembleth theDeuil, & plaieth his proper parr,that he hath altohis name put vponhim ; as the Iewes werePaid tobe oftheir father the deuiil,be- caufe theydidhe work!. That this vice offalfeaccufation,is the deuils Ioh$44, worke,appeareth in that it was firfl pradtifed byhim : who beeing from the beginning a deuill,that is, one that goeth between two with tales, tocall betweene them bones ofenmity, fpareth neither God nor man: God he accufed vnto Adam and Eue; and accufed Iob vnto God, and is Fatteaecuitt g acs com- called theaccnfer ofthebrethren:but vet it is not his alone, but bath euer 4w mitred, liincebeen taken vp into thepraétife ofhis infiruments , who haue their tongues-feron fire ofhell, wherethey (ball be tormented. The nature of Iam,'s which fiune,that we may the better difcouer, wee mutt know that it is fundrywaits committed,efpecially foure. t. In charging menor women in publike or private,to their face or a I behind their backs,with thingswhich arefalfeandvntrxe: fo dealt Ziba with Mephibofhetb;contrary to true l oue,zvhich reieyceth in the trssth, i , asam.16.3, Cor.i 3.6. 2. Theremaybe,and moll vfually is, falfe accufing cuen in relating 2 tree things, fundry wales: As t. byblafing ferret infirmities, which loue would haue cowered. a.By aggrauating through vehemencie of words, 2 faóts, or fpeaches, which may receiuea fauourable conflrudtion. Thus Doegagainfl Ahimelec fpake the truch,but with a wicked hart,infinua- ,sam.:z.y, ting treafonable intêtions where were none :the floty fheweth the grie- uous mifcheife that came of that wickednes. So dealt Amazia to the Amos7.9. King,
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