The crown & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…The crovvn & glory of Christianity, or, Holiness, the only way to happiness discovered…

mens minds are known by their mouths; if the ⟨p. 460⟩mouth be bad, the mind is not good; he that is rotten in his talk, is commonly rotte• •n the heart. Of all the members of the body, there is none so serviceable to Satan as an evil tongue; and therefore when all the body is full of sores,¹ he will keep the tongue from blisters, that so a man may the more freely and fully curse God and die: And this was the reason why Satan spared Jobs tongue, when he sadly paid all other members of bis body, that so his grand design which was to provoke Job both to curse God, and to charge him foolishly, might take place; but Jobs tongue be oiled with grace, proved his glory in his trying hour, and instead of cursing he blesses a taking God, an angry God. O! sirs, the world is as full of evil tongues as Nilus of Crocodiles, or as Sodom of Sulphur, or as Egypt of Lice; and there is no fence, no guard against these evil tongues; and therefore why should any man be discouraged from pursuing after holiness, because of the revilings of evil tongues. Munster writes of men in India, which speak not like men, but barks like dogs, and who regards such men? no more should we regard such foul mouthed persons, who are still barking against holiness, as the dogs bark against the Moon; but as the Moon runs her race and holds her course, though all the dogs in the Town bark never so much at it; so should you pursue after holiness, though all the tongues in the Town should be barking and scoffing at you. But,

mens minds are known by their mouthes; if the ⟨p. 460⟩mouth be bad, the mind is not good; he that is rotten in his talk, is commonly rotte• •n the heart. Of all the members of the body, there is none so serviceable to Satan as an evil tongue; and therefore when all the body is full of sores,¹ he will keep the tongue from blisters, that so a man may the more freely and fully curse God and die: And this was the reason why Satan spared Jobs tongue, when he sadly paid all other members of bis body, that so his grand designe which was to provoke Job both to curse God, and to charge him foolishly, might take place; but Jobs tongue be oyled with grace, proved his glory in his trying hour, and instead of cursing he blesses a taking God, an angry God. O! sirs, the world is as full of evil tongues as Nilus of Crocodiles, or as Sodom of Sulphur, or as Egypt of Lice; and there is no fence, no guard against these evil tongues; and therefore why should any man be discouraged from pursuing after holiness, because of the revilings of evil tongues. Munster writes of men in India, which speak not like men, but barks like doggs, and who regards such men? no more should we regard such foul mouth'd persons, who are still barking against holiness, as the doggs bark against the Moon; but as the Moon runs her race and holds her course, though all the doggs in the Town bark never so much at it; so should you pursue after holiness, though all the tongues in the Town should be barking and scoffing at you. But,