A plain and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the…A plaine and familiar exposition of the fifteenth, sixteenth, and seventeenth chapters of the…

Reasons. 1 First, all their members and senses are servants to sin, and used as weapons of unrighteousness: and therefore if one be bad, another cannot be good: if the tongue be slanderous, the care will be graceless.

Reasons. 1 First, all their members and senses are seruants to sinne, and vsed as weapons of vnrighteousnesse: and therefore if one be bad, another cannot be good: if the tongue bee slanderous, the care will be gracelesse.

Secondly, they love lies, and therefore how can they but hearken to them that make lies, sithence they prepare for their appetite, and as it were dress such meats as are toothsome unto them?

Secondly, they loue lies, and therefore how can they but hearken to them that make lies, sithence they prepare for their appetite, and as it were dresse such meats as are toothsome vnto them?

Thirdly, by giving heed to false lips, and listening to naughty tongues, they provide matter for their own false lips and naughty tongues to talk of: they furnish themselves ⟨p. 118⟩with such wares as they mind to make sale of for their best advantage. They may be prompted with more plausible lies, and probable obtrectations, by other mens inventions, than ever their own wits were able to find out or imagine. And that which they have heard, though never so slanderous, they think they may declare with warrant: and if a lie hath been told them, though never so palpable, they presume to tell it again with authority.

Thirdly, by giuing heed to false lips, and listening to naughty tongues, they prouide matter for their owne false lips and naughty tongues to talke of: they furnish themselues