A plain and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the ninth and tenth chapters of the Prouerbs…

And he that uttereth slander, &c. It is a note of a sinful fool, Doct. 2 to have a bitter, railing, and slanderous tongue. Our Saviour ¹reckoneth this amongst many other foul sins, proceeding from a corrupt heart, whereby wicked men are defiled: Out of the heart, saith he, come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders. Mat. 15. 19.

And he that vttereth slander, &c. It is a note of a sinfull foole, Doct. 2 to haue a bitter, rayling, and slanderous tongue. Our Sauiour ¹reckoneth this amongst many other foule sinnes, proceeding from a corrupt heart, whereby wicked men are defiled: Out of the heart, saith he, come euill thoughts, murthers, adulteries, fornications, theftes, false testimonies, and slanders. Mat. 15. 19.

1. 1Railers are fools.Raylers are fooles.

First, they grievously wrong the party whose name they Reasons. 1 traduce: for if a mans estimation be of greater value then gold or silver, Prou. 22. 1. then a greater injury is offered by them which deprave him in that, then by those that shall rob him of his goods, and spoil him in his estate. Nay many times the violence that is offered to ones person is less hurtful then to be reproached in his name; and therefore they that show that indignity are compared to hammers, and swords, and sharp arrows.