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THE TAMING OF the Tongue.

Here is a single Position, guarded with a double reason. The Position is, No man can tame the Tongue. The Reasons, 1. It is unruly. 2. Full of deadly poison. Here is busy dealing with a wild member: a more difficult action, and intractable nature could not have met. Tongue is the Subject (I mean in the discourse;) and can you ever think of subjecting it naturally to reason, or taming it to Religion? Go lead a Lyon in a single hair, send up an Eagle to the sky to peck out a star, cope up the thunder, and quench a flaming City with one widows tears: if thou couldest do these, yet nescit modo lingua domari: the Tongue can no man tame. As the Proposition is backed with two reasons; so each reasons; ⟨p. 22⟩so each reason hath a terrible second, The Evil hath for the second unruliness: the Poisonfulnes hath deadly. It is evil, yea unruly evil: it is poison, yea, deadly poison. The Fort is so barricadoed, that it is hard scaling it: the refractary Rebel so guarded with Evil and Poison, so warded with unruly and deadly; as if it were with Giants in an unchanted Tower, as they fabulate; that no man can tame it. Yet let us examine the matter, and find a stratagem to subdue it.