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Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the…Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the…
Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachi the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...Religion our true interest, or, Practical notes upon the third chapter of Malachy the sixteen, seventeen and eighteen verses : seasonable for the times / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1682
PRACTICAL NOTES UPON MALACH. III. Ver. 16, 17, &c. › Chapter 6: Containing the Applicatory part.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
4. It reproves them who do indeed speak often to one another but in a bad sense. 1. They speak one to another in hasty words. Their words should be like the Waters of Shiloah that go softly, but too often they are fierce and Pungent. *Water when it is hot soon boils over; when the Heart is heated with anger it soon boils over in furious speeches, Jam. 3.6. Passion transports. Many curse in their anger. The Tongue is made in the fashion of a Sword, and it cuts like a Sword: Angry words often prejudice him that utters them: Rehoboam with one churlish word lost ten tribes. A fiery Spirit is unsuitable to the Master we serve, the Prince of Peace; and to his Embassy, the Gospel of Peace. Such whose tongues are set on fire, let them take heed they do not one day in Hell desire a drop of Water to Cool their Tongue.
4. It reproves them who do indeed speak often to one another but in a bad sence. 1. They speak one to another in hasty words. Their words should be like the Waters of Shiloah that go softly, but too often they are fierce and Pungent. *Water when it is hot soon boils over; when the Heart is heated with anger it soon boils over in furious speeches, Jam. 3.6. Passion transports. Many curse in their anger. The Tongue is made in the fashion of a Sword, and it cuts like a Sword: Angry words often prejudice him that utters them: Rehoboam with one churlish word lost ten tribes. A fiery Spirit is unsuitable to the Master we serve, the Prince of Peace; and to his Ambassage, the Gospel of Peace. Such whose tongues are set on fire, let them take heed they do not one day in Hell desire a drop of Water to Cool their Tongue.
- *Magnoque irarum fluctuat aestu. Virgil.