3. Every creature hath a voice like it self, and therefore so should the new creature have. The Ox bellows, the Ass brayeth, Goats and Sheep may be known by their bleat; and so is a man by the tenor of his discourse. As the constitution of the mind is, so are their words. A wicked man hath a vain heart, and therefore his discourse is idle and frivolous, Prov. 10. 20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is little worth. The antithesis shows it should have been said, the tongue of the wicked is little worth; but he would point at the cause of it, the heart of the wicked. There's a quick intercourse between the tongue and the heart. Now because the heart of the wicked is nothing worth, all his thoughts and musings are vain; he goes grinding chaff in his mind all the day; his mind like a Mill is always at work: not upon corn, that it might be bread for his soul; but upon chaff: therefore because his heart is nothing worth, his tongue is nothing worth. The tongue of the just is as choice silver, it brings in a great deal of treasure. But take a wicked man, all the workings of his heart, his thoughts and discourses, when summed up together, the product and total sum at night is nothing but vanity. The Lord seeth all their thoughts are but vain. A vain heart will have vain speeches, and so a cankered sinner will have cankered discourse, as a putrid breath discovereth rotten lungs. Every mans speech is as his humour is; come to a covetous person, he will be discoursing of Farms, Oxen, Bargains, Wares, and such like. Come to an Epicurean Gallant, to a Voluptuary, and he will be telling you of Horses, Games, Dogs, Meats, Drinks, merry company. Go to the Ambitious, they will be talking of Honours, Offices, and the like. As they are of the flesh, so their talk savours of fleshly things. Every man hath a voice like himself, he speaks according to the constitution of his mind. Go to the discontented man, he will be talking of his Adversaries, telling of affronts, wrongs, and public offences received. But a godly man hath a voice too, like himself; he will be declaring the judgments of Gods mouth, he will be speaking out of the word of God, of things within his sphere, and suitable to his kind, Mat. 12. 35. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth' forth good things.
3. Every creature hath a voice like it self, and therefore so should the new creature have. The Ox bellows, the Ass brayeth, Goats and Sheep may be known by their bleat; and so is a man by the tenor of his discourse. As the constitution of the mind is, so are their words. A wicked man hath a vain heart, and therefore his discourse is idle and frivolous, Prov. 10. 20. The tongue of the just is as choice silver: but the heart of the wicked is little worth. The antithesis shews it should have been said, the tongue of the wicked is little worth; but he would point at the cause of it, the heart of the wicked. There's a quick intercourse between the tongue and the heart. Now because the heart of the wicked is nothing worth, all his thoughts and musings are vain; he goes grinding chaff in his mind all the day; his mind like a Mill is always at work: not upon corn, that it might be bread for his soul; but upon chaff: therefore because his heart is nothing worth, his tongue is nothing worth. The tongue of the just is as choice silver, it brings in a great deal of treasure. But take a wicked man, all the workings of his heart, his thoughts and discourses, when summed up together, the product and total sum at night is nothing but vanity. The Lord seeth all their thoughts are but vain. A vain heart will have vain speeches, and so a cankered sinner will have cankered discourse, as a putrid breath discovereth rotten lungs. Every mans speech is as his humor is; come to a covetous person, he will be discoursing of Farms, Oxen, Bargains, Wares, and such like. Come to an Epicurean Gallant, to a Voluptuary, and he will be telling you of Horses, Games, Dogs, Meats, Drinks, merry company. Go to the Ambitious, they will be talking of Honours, Offices, and the like. As they are of the flesh, so their talk savours of fleshly things. Every man hath a voice like himself, he speaks according to the constitution of his mind. Go to the discontented man, he will be talking of his Adversaries, telling of affronts, wrongs, and publick offences received. But a godly man hath a voice too, like himself; he will be declaring the judgments of Gods mouth, he will be speaking out of the word of God, of things within his sphere, and suitable to his kind, Mat. 12. 35. A good man out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth' forth good things.
