The application of redemption

and in truth it's no marvel, for thy language and customary speech gives a taste of the temper of thy soul and spiritual condition, and is a sad evidence of thy corrupt and graceless estate, James 1. 16. If any seem to be Religious, and bridleth not his tongue, the Religion of that man is vain; his language loose and frothy, his words peevish and frampful, froward and scornful, the Religion of that man is not worth a rush, his prayers are vain, his hearing vain, his profession he will never do good with it, never receive good or benefit from it: As we say of Money, the sound of it shows whether it […] pure or base, true or counterfeit, it sounds like Brass or Copper, it's certainly counterfeit, it hath not the sound of silver, or as ⟨p. 148⟩we say of Bells, the ring of them discovers whether they […] of base matter, or of right […]; so here, a mans speech is the discoverer of a mans Spirit. If his heart be the Inditer of a good matter, the tongue will be as the pen of a ready Writer, Psal. 45. 1. Those words that come from Grace in the speaker, will administer Grace to the hearers; empty words do show an empty heart. Thou art one of those, and thy speech bewrays thee, said they to Peter: A jeering and scoffing tongue is a note of an Ishmaelite; by that Ismael was discovered to be of the flesh, Gal. 4. In a word, as a stinking breath argues a corrupt Stomach and […] Lungs; so it is with base and vain language, it argues a corrupt and rotten heart: As light therefore as thou conceivest these vain and windy words of thine, thou wilt one day find the load of them so heavy, that they will be like a Millstone to sink thee down into irrecoverable […], so that thy life and death lies in thy words as little as thou makest of them.

and in truth it's no marvel, for thy language and customary speech gives a tast of the temper of thy soul and spiritual condition, and is a sad evidence of thy corrupt and graceless estate, James 1. 16. If any seem to be Religious, and bridleth not his tongue, the Religion of that man is vain; his language loose and froathy, his words peevish and frampful, froward and scornful, the Religion of that man is not worth a rush, his prayers are vain, his hearing vain, his profession he wil never do good with it, never receive good or benefit from it: As we say of Money, the sound of it shews whether it pure or base, true or counterfeit, it sounds like Brass or Copper, it's certainly counterfeit, it hath not the sound of silver, or as