CHAP.;.z . ACommetttarie vonthe Sao be neuer exptesfed : But markehow theLord anfwereth fuch vain con- ceits, P fal. s o.i 9.ao. Thougiuef thy mouth to euill, andfpeakeff againff thy mothers tonnes: thefe things thoudoe(,an41 heldmy tengue,andthou though- tefi me like thy felfe : But willrepropose thee , e¢c. God bath his time then tocall upon old reckonings, and then thou (halt not thinkwords wind, Prou.iSar. but knowe to thy coil , that life and death was in the power of thy tongue. Others yet fee no fuch danger, or if any be, it is farce off: But this (inne betide the iuß hire of it hereafter, çarrieth a teener plague with it for the pi e(ent:for look as thoudealeßwith another mins name, fo fhall scat.?.s. thine be dealt with, andwith what meafure thou meatefi to others, !hall mots meafure to thee again. But I mud fpeake my miede, and then I haue done: no, thouhail done thy fpeach, but thy fpcach bathnot done with thee: thoumails as well fay, hauing (tabbed. a man to the heart , I gauehim but ablowe, and I had done, but theblow hatla not done with thee, thoumuß before the Iudge for ail that,and then fee if that plea wil hold. Let profefforstherefore humble themfelues for this (inne, which is fo dangerous audio common, as that it is the englifhof our tables, of our beds, of our publike and privatemeetings, to rippevp this or that olde flippe, or iniuriedone by another: thedeuill loth fo fit in the lippes of anumber of men, that no other talkecan proceede from them, but filch as is like arrowes,to wound thofe that are farre off, or hammers toknock him in the head , to whom fuch tales are told , orJirórds wounding his owne foule to the death. Beware alto for time to comeof the fub:ilties of Satan,who that he may not appearean accufer or a deuil as he is,or fo blacke as he is, hash taught hisnouices in this art to viediuerfe prefaces as it were toget attention by: and then is the (inne moil dangerous, and hathmoll Satanical! fubtiltie in it. Sometime yce (hall haue force that will beginne with the praifeof thepartiehe tellecha taleof: he is an bo- ne} man, one that I hauecaufe to loueweil,and one ofverygood parts, &c.and yet thus will hewound anhoneß man, he fparethnot his friend, but as a fly follewes his fores.Sometimes the talebearer beginneth with the profellion of friendship to the party, to whome bee would vent - fomemifcheife, and infect force feemingcareof the others credit; you are my friend, and let it be fpoken betweene vs, and goe no further; tell none that I cold you : But would he haue a word againß his neighbour die withanother, and cannòc let it diewithhimfelfe? or would he shut another mans mouth euen in opening it?he bathalto his friend to com- municate it unto, and fo it goes fromhand to hand,fretting fecretly like a canker.Sometimes againewe thal heaveslandersbreathed out in a cer- taine Pro 25,0. Prou.11.15.
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