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Flattery, Tale-bearing, &c.-Reproach.

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CLXXXIII. Tale-bearing. Lev. xix. 16. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale-bearer among thy people.

Prov. xi. 13. A tale-bearer revealeth secrets, but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.

xvii. 9. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love, but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends.

xviii. 8. The words of a tale-bearer are as wounds, they go down into the innermost parts of the belly. Ch. xxvi. 22.

xx. 19. He that goeth about as a tale-bearer revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that flattereth with his lips.

CHAP. XVII.

2 Cor. xii. 20. I fear lest there be among you whisperings, swellings, &c. BACK-BITING.

CLXXXV. Back-biting. Ps. xv. 1. Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle? who shall dwell in thy holy hill?-Ver. 3. He that back-biteth not with his tongue.

Prov. xxv. 23. An angry countenance driveth away a back-biting tongue.

Rom. i. 28. The wicked have a reprobate mind.-Ver. 29. Filled with all unrighteousness.-Ver. 30. Back-biters, &c. See 2 Cor. xii. 20.

SLANDERING, &c.

CLXXXVI. Slandering, &c. Ps. ci, 5. Whoso privily slandereth his neighbour, him will I cut off.

Prov. x. 8. He that uttereth a slander is a fool.

Ps. xxxi. 13. I have heard the slanders of many, while they take counsel against me.

1. 20, 21. Thou slandereth thy own mother's son. I will reprove thee, saith

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1 Tim. iii. 11. Deacons' wives must not be slanderers. See Ps. xxxi. 13. Rom. iii. 8.

REPROACH.

CLXXXVII. Prayers and complaints against it. Neh. iv. 4. Hear, O our God, for we are despised; turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey.

Job xvi. 10. They have smitten me reproachfully.

Ps. xxii. 6. I am a reproach of men, and despised of the people.

xxi. 11. I was a reproach among all mine enemies, and especially among my

xxvi. 20. Where there is no tale- neighbours. bearer the strife ceaseth.

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xxxix. 8. Deliver me from all mine enemies; make me not the reproach of the foolish.

xlii. 10. As with a sword in my bones mine enemies reproach me.

xliv. 13. Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn, and a derision to them that are round about us.

lv. 12. It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it. Ver. 15. Let death seize upon them.

Ps. Ixix. 7. For thy sake, I have borne reproach, &c.

Ver. 9, 10. The reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me. (Rom. xv. 3.) When I wept and chastened my soul with fasting that was to my reproach.

Ver. 19. Thou hast known my reproach, my shame and dishonour.-Ver. 23. Let their eyes be darkened.

lxxiv. 10. O God, how long shall the adversary reproach?-Ver. 18. Remember that the enemy hath reproached, O Lord.

lxxix. 4. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.-Ver. 12. Render unto our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach. lxxxix. 41. He is a reproach to his neighbours.

Ver. 50, 51. Remember, O Lord, the reproach of thy servants, wherewith thine enemies have reproached.

cii. 8. Mine enemies reproach me all the day.

cix. 25, 26. I became also a reproach unto them. Help me, O Lord my God. cxix. 22. Remove from me reproach and contempt.

Ver. 39. Turn away my reproach which I fear.

Lam. iii. 61. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, and all their imaginations against me.-Ver. 64. Render unto them a recompense, O Lord.

Joel ii. 17. Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach.

CLXXXVIII. Reproach. God will bring it upon the wicked. Jer. xxiv. 9. I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth, for their hurt; to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. Ch. xxix. 18.-xlii. 18.-xliv. 12. Ezek. v. 14, 15. -xxii. 4.

Isa. xliii. 27, 28. Thy first father hath sinned, and thy teachers have transgressed against me. Therefore have I profaned the princes of the sanctuary, and have given Jacob to the curse, and Israel to reproaches.

Dan. ix. 16. For the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are become a reproach to all that are about

us.

CLXXXIX. Promises against reproach. Ps. lvii. 3. He shall save me from the Tt

reproach of him that would swallow me up.

Isa. li. 7. Fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be afraid of their revilings; for the moth shall eat them, &c. Ver. 8.

Ezek. xxxvi. 3. Ye are taken up in the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of the people.-Ver. 7. Thus saith the Lord, The heathen that are about you shall bear their shame.

Joel ii. 19. I will no more make you a reproach.

Zeph. ii. 8, 9. I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, As I live, saith the Lord God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah. Ver. 10, 11.

Luke vi. 22. Blessed are ye, saith Christ, when men shall reproach you for my sake.

2 Cor. xii. 10. I take pleasure in reproaches for Christ. Heb. x. 3.

1 Pet. iv. 14. If ye be reproached for the name of Christ, happy are ye. See Job v. 21. Ps. xxxi. 20.-cxx. 2.

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Matt. v. 11. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you, &c.

xxvii. 39. They that passed by reviled Christ.

Mark xv. 32. They that were crucified with him reviled him.

John ix. 28. The Pharisees reviled him whose eyes Christ opened.

1 Cor. iv. 12. Being reviled we bless.

vi. 10. Neither thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, &c. shall inherit the kingdom of God.

1 Pet. ii. 13. Christ, when he was reviled, reviled not again. See Isa. li. 7. Zeph. ii. 8, in the foregoing section.

RAILING.

CXCI. Railing. 2 Cor. v. 11. Keep not company with a railer.

1 Tim. vi. 4. Strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, &c.

1 Pet. iii. 9. Love as brethren; not rendering railing for railing.

2 Pet. ii. 11. Angels bring not a railing accusation against the wicked. Jude 9. The angel durst not bring a

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Evil Communications, &c.—The Righteous. CHAP. XVII.

railing accusation against the devil. Ver. 13.

Instances of the wicked's railing. Sennacherib, 2 Chron. xxxii. 17.-Nabal, 1 Sam. xxv. 14.-Persons at Christ's crucifixion, Mark xv. 29.—A malefactor, Luke xxiii. 39.

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Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

v. 3, 4. Fornication and uncleanness, let it not be once named amongst you; neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient. Matt. xii. 36. For every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. Col. iii. 8. Put off all these, anger, wrath, blasphemy, filthy communications out of your mouth.

iv. 6. Let your speech be always with grace.

2 Pet. ii. 7. God delivered just Lot, vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked. See Isa. ix. 17.

CXCIII. Unprofitable disputes about religion. 1 Tim. i. 4. Neither give heed to fables, which minister questions rather than godly edifying. See 1 Tim. vi. 4, 5. 2 Tim. ii. 14. 16, 17. Tit. iii. 9.

CURSING.

CXCIV. Cursing forbidden in Scripture, and avoided by the righteous. Ex. xxii. 28. Thou shalt not curse the ruler of thy people.

Lev. xix. 14. Thou shalt not curse the deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before the blind.

Job xxxi. 30. Job said, Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a curse to his soul that hated me.

Eccl. x. 20. Curse not the king in thy thought; curse not the rich.

Matt. v. 44. Bless them that curse you. Rom. xii. 14. Bless and curse not. James iii. 10. Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. These things ought not so to be.

CXCV. Cursing practised by the wicked. Gen. xii. 3. The Lord said to Abram, I will curse him that curseth thee. Ch. xxvii. 29.

Judg. xvii. 2. Micah's mother cursed about her silver.

2 Sam. xvi. 5. 12. Shimei cursed David. He is punished. 1 Kings ii. 8. 46. Ps. x. 7. The mouth of the wicked is full of cursing.

lix. 12. For the sin of their mouth, for cursing and lying, consume them in wrath. Ver. 13. Ps. lxii. 4.

cix. 17. As he loved cursing, let it come unto him.-Ver. 28. Let them curse, but bless thou.

Prov. xxvi. 2. The curse causeless shall not come.

xxix. 24. The wicked heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not.

Isa. viii. 21. The wicked shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God.

Jer. v. 10. Every one of them doth curse me wrongfully.

xxiii. 10. Because of cursing the land mourneth.

Acts xxiii. 12. The Jews bound themselves with a curse, neither to eat nor drink, till they had killed Paul,

See Numb. xxii. 6 to 17.-xxiii. 1 to 25. Deut. xxiii. 4. Josh. xxiv. 9. Neh. xiii. 2. Where Balak hires Balaam to curse Israel.

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THE RIGHTEOUS.

CXCVI. The righteous, their care of their words. Job ii. 10. In all this Job sinned not with his lips.

xxvii. 4. Job said, My lips shall not speak wickedness.

xxxiii. 3. My words shall be of the uprightness of my heart.

Ps. xxxix. 1. David said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep my mouth with a bridle while the wicked is before me.

cxli. 3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

Prov. viii. 6. Wisdom saith, The opening of my lips shall be right things.

xvi. 23. The heart of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips.

Mal. i. 6. Iniquity was not found in Levi's lips.

CXCVII. They praise God with their mouths. Ps. xvii. 1. My prayer goeth not out of feigned lips.

xl. 9. I preached righteousness; I refrained not my lips.

Ixiii. 3. My lips shall praise thee. lxvi. 14. I will pay my vows, which my lips have uttered when I was in trouble. lxxi. 23. My lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee.

cxix. 13. With my lips have I declared all the judgments of thy mouth.-Ver. 171. My lips shall utter praise, when thou hast taught me thy statutes.

Hos. xiv. 2. We will render the calves of our lips.

Heb. xiii. 15. Let us offer the fruit of our lips, giving thanks to his name. See Mal. iii. 16. Matt. xiii. 52.

CXCVIII. The words of the righteous, the just, &c. toward men. Job vi. 25. How forcible are right words. Prov. xv. 23. Eccl. xii. 10, 11.

Ps. xxxvii. 30. The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.

Prov. x. 11. The mouth of the righteous is a well of life.-Ver. 13. In the lips of him that hath understanding, wisdom is found.

Ver. 20, 21. The tongue of the just is as choice silver. The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for want of wisdom.

Ver. 31, 32. The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom, but the froward tongue shall be cut out. The lips of the righteous know what is acceptable, but the mouth of the wicked speaketh frowardness.

xii. 6. The mouth of the upright shall deliver them.-Ver. 14. A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. Ch. xiii. 2.

Ver. 18. There is that speaketh like the piercing of a sword, but the tongue of the wise is health.

xiv. 3. In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.

xv. 1. A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up strife. Ver. 2. The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright, but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

Ver. 4. A wholesome tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness therein is a breach in the spirit.-Ver. 7. The lips of the wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of the foolish doeth not so.

Ver. 28. The heart of the righteous studieth to answer, but the. mouth of the foolish poureth out evil things.

xvi. 13. Righteous lips are the delight of kings, and they love him that speaketh right.

Ver. 21. The sweetness of the lips increaseth knowledge.—Ver. 24. Pleasant words are as an honey-comb; sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

xviii. 20, 21. A man's belly shall be satisfied with the fruit of his mouth, and with the increase of his lips shall he be filled. Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

xx. 15. The lips of knowledge are a precious jewel.

xxii. 11. He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

Ver. 17, 18. Hear the words of the wise. They shall be fitted in thy lips. xxiii. 16. My reins shall rejoice when thy lips speak right things.

xxiv. 26. Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

Eccl. ix. 17. The words of the wise are heard in quiet, more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

x. 12. The words of a wise man's mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself. Ver. 13,

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Matt. v. 37. Let your communications be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

xii. 35. A good man, out of the good treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good things.

xiii. 52. Every scribe instructed into the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man that is an householder which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.

Luke iv. 22. Gracious words proceeded out of Jesus' mouth.

Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth; but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers,

v. 3, 4. Fornication, and all uncleanness, let it not be once named amongst you: neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient; but rather giving of thanks.

Col. iii. 8. Put off filthy communications out of your mouth.

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1 Cor. v. 11. I have written to you, if any one that is called a brother, be covetous, &c. with such an one no not to eat.

Eph. v. 3. Covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints.

Col. iii. 5. Mortify your members, &c. and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Heb. xiii. 5. Let your conversation be without covetousness.

CC. Threatenings against covetous persons. Ps. x. 3. The wicked bless. eth the covetous, whom the Lord ab

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Jer. vi. 12, 13. Their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields. For from the least of them even to the greatest, every one is given to covetousness. Ch. viii. 10.

xxii. 17. 19. Thine eyes and thine heart are not but for thy covetousness. Therefore, saith the Lord, they shall not lament for him, (viz. Jehoiakim.) He shall be buried with the burial of

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Eph. v. 5. No covetous man hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. See Ezek. xxxiii. 28. 31.

See instances of covetous persons punished. Balaam, Numb. Chap. xxii. and xxiii. Compare 2 Pet. ii. 15. Jude 11. Rev. ii. 14.-His death, Numb. xxxi. 8. 16. Achan, Josh. vii. 5 to 25.-Ahab, 1 Kings xxi. 1 to 16. 19, &c. 2 Kings ix. 25.

CCI. An insatiable desire of riches. Prov. xv. 27. He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house.

xxvii. 20. Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Eccl. iv. 8. There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother; yet there is no end of his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity; it is a sore travel.

v. 10. He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver; neither he that loveth abundance with increase.

CCII. Threats against unjust measures of acquiring riches. Prov. i. 18, 19. They lay wait for their own blood, they lurk privily for their own lives. So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain, which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Matt. xvi. 26. What is a man profited, if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give li. 13. O Babylon, thine end is come, in exchange for his soul? Job xxvii. 8, and the measure of thy covetousness. 9. For what is the hope of the hypoMic. ii. 1. Woe unto them, they co-crite, though he hath gained, when vet fields, and take them by violence. God taketh away his soul? Will God Hab. ii. 9. Woe to him that coveteth hear his cry when trouble cometh upon an evil covetousness to his house, that him? he may set his nest on high, that he

1 Tim. vi. 9, 10. They that will be

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