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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second,…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the thirty-eighth, thirty-ninth, fortieth, forty-first, and forty-second, being the five last, chapters of the book of Job being the substance of fifty-two lectures or meditations / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by M. and S. Simmons, 1666
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AN EXPOSITION WITH Practical Observations UPON The Thirty-eighth, T… › Chapter 40 › Verse 3-5
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He that hath offended with his mouth, should lay his hand upon his mouth, and take order with his tongue. It is better to be silent, than to offend in speaking.1 Pamb• (as the Church Historian reports) confessed, that in forty nine years he had scarcely learned the meaning of, or the duty contained in the first and second ⟨p. 522⟩verses of the thirty ninth Psalm, concerning the due restraint and government of the tongue.
He that hath offended with his mouth, should lay his hand upon his mouth, and take order with his tongue. It is better to be silent, than to offend in speaking.1 Pamb• (as the Church Historian reports) confessed, that in forty nine years he had scarcely learned the meaning of, or the duty contained in the first and •econd ⟨p. 522⟩verses of the thirty ninth Psalm, concerning the due restraint and government of the tongue.
- 1Socrates l. 4. hist. Eccles. cap. 18.
Secondly, Note; 1It is necessary sometimes to abridge our selves in what we may do, lest we should do what we may not.
- 1Hoc suppli•ii gonus linguarium appellant. Sanct.