The Godly Man's Picture

2. Whose tongues are set on fire of Hell: Their lips do not drop honey but poison, to the defiling of others. Plutarch saith, speech ⟨p. 144⟩ought to be like gold, which is then of most value, when it hath least dross in it: O the unclean malicious words that some persons utter! What an unsavoury stench comes from these dunghills; those lips had need have Davids ^*Bridle, that gallop so fast in sin: Can the body be healthful when the tongue is black? Can the heart be holy when the devil is in the lips? A godly man speaks the language of Canaan, Mal. 3. 16. They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another.

2. Whose tongues are set on fire of Hell: Their lips do not drop honey but poyson, to the defiling of others. Plutarch saith, speech ⟨p. 144⟩ought to be like gold, which is then of most value, when it hath least dross in it: O the unclean malicious words that some persons utter! What an unsavoury stench comes from these dunghils; those lips had need have Davids ^*Bridle, that gallop so fast in sin: Can the body be healthful when the tongue is black? Can the heart be holy when the devil is in the lips? A godly man speaks the language of Canaan, Mal. 3. 16. They that feared the Lord, spake often one to another.

1. *Psa. 39. 1

4. A godly man is heavenly in his Operation. The motions of the Planets are Celestial: A godly man is sublime and sacred in his motions, he works out salvation, he puts forth all his strength, as they did in the Olympics, that he may obtain the Garland made of the Flowers of Paradise; he prays, fasts, watcheth, he offers violence to heaven, he is divinely acted, he carries on Gods Interest in the world, he doth Angels work, he is in his Operations Seraphical.