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A plain and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Proverbs…A plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs…
A plain and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Proverbs of SolomonA plaine and familiar exposition of the thirteenth and fourteenth chapters of the Prouerbs of Salomon
London: printed by R.B. for Roger Jackson, 1608London: printed by R.B. for Roger Iackson, 1608
AN EXPOSITION OF THE THIRTEENTH CHAPTER OF THE PROVERBS. › Chapter 13
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Instruction to set a guard of attendance and watchfulness before Use. 1 our lips in every place, and at all times, that pernicious words issue not out to other mens damage, and destruction. It is as safe to let poison come into our mouths, as pestilent speeches to go ⟨p. 9⟩out thence: for that would work on our selves alone, but these will hurt our brethren with us: that would only kill the body, and take away natural life: and these will endanger both body and soul, and deprive us of eternal life.
Jnstruction to set a guard of attendance and watchfulnes before Vse. 1 our lips in euery place, and at all times, that pernitious words issue not out to other mens dammage, and destruction. It is as safe to let poyson come into our mouthes, as pestilent speeches to goe ⟨p. 9⟩out thence: for that would worke on our selues alone, but these will hurt our brethren with vs: that would onely kill the body, and take away naturall life: and these will endanger both body and soule, and depriue vs of eternall life.
Neither is it an easy matter to keep them in, unless a continual and serious care be had thereof. There are no malefactors more ready to break out of prison, nor waters to flow out of fountains, then lewd, or foolish, or fruitless words are to proceed out of mens mouths. How quickly shall the best forget themselves in their talk, if they be not very vigilant, and wary? How many unfit, at least frivolous, and idle speeches will steal away, and slip from them, if they give any passage unto them without examination of their purpose and business? The Prophet Isaiah was in good earnest, and spake as he found, and felt, when he said, that he was a man of polluted lips, and dwelt in the middest of 1a people of polluted lips. Saint James was well advised, and knew what he writ, and had the Holy ghost to warrant him, when he calleth the tongue An unruly evil, more untameable then the wild beasts, or any other living creature: and if it were not