my sake. Ps. Ixix. 7. For thy sake, I have borne reproach of him that would swallow reproach, &c. me up. Ver. 9, 10. The reproaches of them Isa. li. 7. Fear ye not the reproach of that reproached thee are fallen upon me. men, neither be afraid of their revilings ; (Rom. xv. 3.) When I wept and chas. for the moth shall eat them, &c. Ver. 8. tened my soul with fasting that was to Ezek. xxxvi. 3. Ye are taken up in my reproach. the lips of talkers, and are an infamy of Ver.19. Thou hast known my reproach, the people.- Ver. 7. Thus saith the Lord, my shame and dishonour.--Ver. 23. Let The heathen that are about you shall bear their eyes be darkened. their shame. lxxiv. 10. O God, how long shall the Joel ïi. 19. I will no more make you a adversary reproach ?-Ver. 18. Remem. reproach. ber that the enemy hath reproached, O Zeph. ii. 8, 9. I have heard the reproach Lord. of Moab, and the revilings of the children Ixxix. 4. We are become a reproach of Ammon. As I live, saith the Lord to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to God of Israel, surely Moab shall be as them that are round about us.—Ver. 12. Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Render unto our neighbours seven-fold Gomorrah. Ver. 10, 11. into their bosom their reproach. Luke vi. 22. Blessed are ye, saith Christ, lxxxix. 41. He is a reproach to his when men shall reproach you for neighbours. 2 Cor. xii. 10. I take pleasure in reVer. 50, 51. Remember, O Lord, the proaches for Christ. Heb. x. 3. reproach of thy servants, wherewith thine 1 Pet. iv, 14. If ye be reproached for enemies have reproached. the name of Christ, happy are ye. See cii. 8. Mine enemies reproach me all Job v. 21. Ps. xxxi. 20.-cxx. 2. the day. cix. 25, 26. I became also a reproach REVILING. CXC. Reviling practised by the wicked, Ver. 39. Turn away my reproach and endured by the godly. Exod. xxii. 28. which I fear. Thou shalt not revile the gods, nor curse Lam. iii. 61. Thou hast heard their the ruler of thy people. Acts xxiii. 4, 5. reproach, O Lord, and all their imagina- Matt. v. 11. Blessed are ye when men tions against me.Ver. 64. Render unto shall revile you, &c. them a recompense, O Lord. xxvii. 39. They that passed by reviled Joel ii. 17. Spare thy people, O Lord, Christ. and give not thine heritage to reproach. Mark xv. 32. They that were crucified with him reviled him. Zeph. ii. 8, in the foregoing section. RAILING. 1 Tim. vi. 4. Strifes of words, whereof Dan. ix. 16. For the iniquities of our cometh envy, strife, railings, &c. fathers, Jerusalem and thy people are be. 1 Pet. iii. 9. Love as brethren, not ren. come a reproach to all that are about us. dering railing for railing: 2 Pet. ii. 11. Angels bring not a railCLXXXIX. Promises against reproach. ing accusation against the wicked. Ps. lvii. 3. He shall save me from the Jude 9. The angel durst not bring a 328 Evil Communications, &.C.The Righteous. CHAP. XVII. railing accusation against the devil. | CXCV. Cursing practised by the wickVer. 13. ed. Gen. xii. 3. The Lord said to Abram, Instances of the wicked's railing. Sen. I will curse him that curseth thee. Ch. nacherib, 2 Chron. xxxii. 17.-Nabal, xxvii. 29. 1 Sam. xxv. 14.--Persons at Christ's Judg. xvii. 2. Micah's mother cursed crucifixion, Mark xv. 29.-A malefactor, about her silver. Luke xxiii. 39. 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. CXCII. Evil communications. Isa. ix. lix. 12. For the sin of their mouth, for 17. Every mouth speaketh folly. God's cursing and lying, consume them in wrath. anger is not turned away, &c. Ver. 13. Ps. lxii. 4. i Cor. xv. 33. Be not deceived, evil cix. 17. As he loved cursing, let it communications corrupt good manners. come unto him.-Ver. 28. Let him curse, Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communi. but bless thou. cation proceed out of your mouth, but that Prov. xxvi. 2. The curse causeless which is good to the use of edifying, that shall not come. it may minister grace unto the hearers. xxix. 24. The wicked heareth cursing, v. 3, 4. Fornication and uncleanness, and bewrayeth it not. let it not be once named amongst you ; Isa. viii. 21. The wicked shall fret neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor themselves, and curse their king and jesting, which are not convenient. Matt. their God. xii. 36. For every idle word that men Jer. v. 10. Every one of them doth shall speak, they shall give an account curse me wrongfully. thereof in the day of judgment. xxiii. 10. Because of cursing the land Col. iii. 8. Put of all these, anger, mourneth. wrath, blasphemy, filthy communications Acts xxiii. 12. The Jews bound themout of your mouth. selves with a curse, neither to eat nor iv. 6. Let your speech be always with drink, till they had killed Paul. grace. See Numb. xxii. 6 to 17.—xxiii. 1 to 2 Pet. q. 7. God delivered just Lot, 25. Deut. xxiii. 4. Josh. xxiv. 9. Neh. vexed with the filthy conversation of the xiii. 2. Where Balak hires Balaam to wicked. See Isa. ix. 17. curse Israel. See Matt. xxvi. 74. When Peter denied CXCIII. Unprofitable disputes about his master. religion. 1 Tim. i. 4. Neither give heed to fables, which minister questions rather than godly edifying. See 1 Tim. vi. 4, 5. THE RIGHTEOUS. 2 Tim. ii. 14. 16, 17. Tit. iii. 9. CXCVI. The righteous, their care of CURSING, their words. Job ii. 10. In all this Job sinned not with his lips. CXCIV. Cursing forbidden in Scrip- xxvii. 4. Job said, My lips shall not ture, and avoided by the righteous. Es. speak wickedness. xxii. 28. Thou shalt not curse the ruler xxxiii. 3. My words shall be of the of thy people. uprightness of my heart. Lev. xix. 14. Thou shalt not curse the Ps. xxxix. 1. David said, I will take deaf, nor put a stumbling-block before heed to my ways, that I sin not with my the blind. tongue: I will keep my mouth with a briJob xxxi. 30. Job said, neither have I dle while the wicked is before me. suffered my mouth to sin, by wishing a cxli. 3. Set a watch, O Lord, before my curse to his soul that hated me. mouth; keep the door of my lips. Eccl. x. 20. Curse not the king in thy Prov. viii. 6. Wisdom saith, The open. thought; curse not the rich. ing of my lips shall be right things. Matt. v. 44. Bless them that curse you. xvi. 23. The heart of the wise teachRom. xii. 14. Bless and curse not. eth his mouth, and addeth learning to James iii. 10. Out of the same mouth his lips. proceedeth blessing and cursing. These Mal. ii. 6. Iniquity was not found in ihings ought not go to be. Levi's lips. CXCVII. They praise God with their wise disperse knowledge, but the heart of mouths. Ps. xvii. 1. My prayer goeth the foolish doeth not so. not out of feigned lips. Ver. 28. The heart of the righteous xl. 9. I preached righteousness; I re- studieth to answer, but the mouth of the frained not my lips. foolish poureth out evil things. lxiii. 3. My lips shall praise thee. xvi. 13. Righteous lips are the delight Ixvi. 14. I will pay my vows, which of kings, and they love him that speaketh my lips have uttered when I was in right. trouble. Ver. 21. The sweetness of the lips inIxxi. 23. My lips shall greatly rejoice creaseth knowledge.- Ver. 24. Pleasant when I sing unto thee. words are as an honey.comb; sweet to cxix. 13. With my lips have I declared the soul, and health to the bones. all the judgments of thy mouth.- Ver. xviii. 20, 21. A man's belly shall be 171. My lips shall utter praise, when satisfied with the fruit of his mouth, and thou hast taught me thy statutes. with the increase of his lips shall he be Hos. xiv. 2. We will render the calves filled. Death and life are in the power of our lips. of the tongue, and they that love it shall Heb. xiii. 15. Let us offer the fruit of eat the fruit thereof. our lips, giving thanks to his name. See xx. 15. The lips of knowledge are a Mal. iii. 16. Matt. xiii. 52. precious jewel. xxii. 11. He that loveth pureness of CXCVIII. The words of the righteous, heart, for the grace of his lips the king the just, 8c. toward men. Job. vi. 25. shall be his friend. How forcible are right words. Prov. xv. Ver. 17. 18. Hear the words of the 23. Eccl. xii. 10, 11. wise. They shall be fitted in thy lips. Ps. xxxvii. 30. The mouth of the xxiii. 16. My reins shall rejoice when righteous speaketh wisdom, and his thy lips speak right things. tongue talketh of judgment. xxiv. 26. Every man shall kiss his lips Prov. x. 11. The mouth of the right that giveth a right answer. eous is a well of life.-Ver. 13. In the Eccl. ix. 17. The words of the wise lips of him that hath understanding, wis- are heard in quiet, more than the cry of dom is found. him that ruleth among fools. Ver. 20, 21. The tongue of the just is The words of a wise man's as choice silver. The lips of the righteous mouth are gracious, but the lips of a fool feed many, but fools die for want of will swallow up himself. Ver. 13, 14, wisdom. Matt. v. 37. "Let your communications Ver. 31, 32. The mouth of the just be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay : for whatsoever bringeth forth wisdom, but the froward is more than these cometh of evil. tongue shall be cut out. The lips of the xii. 35. A good man, out of the good righteous know what is acceptable, but treasure of his heart, bringeth forth good the mouth of the wicked speaketh fro- things. wardness. xiii. 52. Every scribe instructed into xii. 6. The mouth of the upright shall the kingdom of heaven, is like unto a man deliver them.–Ver. 14. A man shall be that is an householder which bringeth satisfied with good by the fruit of his forth out of his treasure things new and mouth. Ch. xiii. 2. old. Ver. 18. There is that speaketh like Luke iv. 22. Gracious words prc. the piercing of a sword, but the tongue ceeded out of Jesus' mouth. of the wise is health. Eph. iv. 29. Let no corrupt communi. xiv. 3. In the mouth of the foolish is cation proceed out of your mouth ; but a rod of pride, but the lips of the wise that which is good to the use of edifying, shall preserve them. that it may minister grace unto the hearers. xv. 1. A soft answer turneth away v. 3, 4. Fornication and all unclean. wrath, but grievous words stir up strife. ness, let it not be once named amongst Ver. 2. The tongue of the wise useth you: neither filthiness nor foolish talking, knowledge aright, but the mouth of fools nor jesting, which are not convenient; poureth out foolishness. but rather giving of thanks. Ver. 4. A wholesome tongue is a tree Col. iii. 8. Put off filthy communica. of life, but perverseness therein is a breach tions out of your mouth. in the spirit.Ver. 7. The lips of the iv. 6. Let your speech be always with x. 12. a eat. grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may may be delivered from the power of know how ye ought to answer every man. evil. James i. 26. If any man seem to be Mark vii. 22, 23. Thefts, covetousreligious, and bridleth not his tongue, ness, &c. defile the man. that man's religion is vain. Rom. i. 29. Being filled with all uniii. 2. If any man offend not in word, righteousness, covetousness, &c.-Ver. the same is a perfect man. 34. They that commit such things are worthy of death. 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10. Know ye not that TENTH COMMANDMENT. the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God: neither thieves, nor COVETOUSNESS. covetous, shall inherit the kingdom of God. CXCIX. Of covetousness. Exod. xx. Eph. v. 5. No covetous man hath 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's any inheritance in the kingdom of house, thou shalt not covet thy neigh. Christ and of God. See Ezek. xxxiii. bour's wife, nor his man servant, nor his 28. 31. maid servant, nor bis ox, nor his ass, nor See instances of covetous persons pun. anything that is thy neighbour's. Deut. ished. Balaam, Numb. Chap. xxii. and xv. 21. Rom. vii. 7.—xiii. 19. xxiii. Compare 2 Pet. ii. 15. Jude 11. Ps. cxix. 36. Incline my heart unto Rev. ii. 14.-His death, Numb. xxxi. 8. thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. 16.—Achan, Josh. vii. 5 to 25.--Ahab, 1 Cor. v. 11. I have written to you, 1 Kings xxi. 1 to 16. 19, &c. 2 Kings if any one that is called a brother, be ix. 25. covetous, &c. with such an one no not to CCI. An insatiable desire of riches. Eph. v. 3. Covetousness, let it not be Prov. xv. 27. He that is greedy of gain once named among you, as becometh troubleth his own house. saints. xxvii. 20. Hell and destruction are Col. iii. 5. Mortify your members, never full; so the eyes of man are never &c. and covetousness, which is idola satisfied. try: Eccl. iv. 8. There is one alone, and Heb. xiii. 5. Let your conversation there is not a second; yea, he hath be without covetousness. neither child nor brother; yet there is no end of his labour, neither is his eye CC. Threatenings against covetous satisfied with riches ; neither saith he, persons. Ps. x. 3. The wicked bless. For whom do I labour, and bereave my eth the covetous, whom the Lord ab- soul of good ? This is also vanity ; it is horreth. a sore travel. Isa. lvii. 17. For the iniquity of his v. 10. He that loveth silver, shall not covetousness was I wroth, and smote be satisfied with silver ; neither he that him. loveth abundance with increase. Jer. vi. 12, 13. Their houses shall be turned unto others, with their fields. CCII. Threats against unjust measures For from the least of them even to the of acquiring riches. Prov. i. 18, 19. greatest, every one is given to covetous. They lay wait for their own blood, they ness. Ch. viii. 10. lurk privily for their own lives. So are xxii. 17. 19. Thine eyes and thine the ways of every one that is greedy of heart are not but for thy covetousness. gain, which taketh away the life of the Therefore, saith the Lord, they shall owners thereof. not lament for him, (viz. Jehoiakim.) Matt. xvi. 26. What is a man profited, He shall be buried with the burial of 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 hypo Mic. ii. 1. Woe unto them, they covet crite, though he hath gained, when 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 an ass. rich fall into temptation, and a snare, spirit wherein he hath laboured ? For and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, all his days are sorrows, and his travel which drown men in destruction and per. grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in dition. For the love of money is the root the night. of all evil; which while some coveted Eccl. v. 11, 12. When goods increase, after, they have erred from the faith, and they are increased that eat them; and pierced themselves through with many what good is there to the owners thereof, sorrows.—Ver. 11. But thou, O man of saving the beholding of them with their God, flee these things. See James iv. eyes? The abundance of the rich will 13. 16. not suffer them to sleep. Ver. 13. I have seen riches kept for CIII. Riches are not a lasting posses. the owners thereof to their hurt. Ver. sion. Prov. xxiii. 5. Riches make them. 16, 17. What profit hath he that labour. selves wings and fly away. eth for the wind? All his days he eateth xxvii. 24. Riches are not for ever; and in darkness, and hath much sorrow and doth the crown endure to every genera- wrath with his sickness. tion ? 1 Cor. vi. 13. ix. 11. Riches are not to men of skill, Mat vi. 19. They are treasures which &c. moth and rust do corrupt, and which Prov. xv. 6. In the revenues of the thieves break through and steal. 1 Tim. wicked is trouble. vi. 17. They are uncertain. xxii. 1. A good name is rather to be xiii. 22. They are deceitful. Mark chosen than great riches. iv, 9. Heb. x. 34. Ye have in licaven a CCVII. Riches recommend no man to better and an enduring substance. the favour of God. Job xxxiv. 19. God CCIV. Riches cannot be carried hence accepteth not the persons of princes, nor to the other world. Ps. xlix. 16, 17. Be regardeth the rich more than the poor. not afraid when one is made rich, when xxxvi. 19. Will he esteem thy riches ? the glory of his house is increased; for | No, not gold, nor all the forces of when he dieth he shall carry nothing strength. away; his glory shall not descend after Prov. xi. 4. Riches profit not in the him. day of wrath. Eccl. v. 15. As he came forth of his xxii. 2. The rich and the poor meet mother's womb, naked shall he return together; the Lord is the maker of them to go as he came; and shall take nothing all. of his labour, which he may carry away Ezek, vii. 18. Their silver and their in his hand. gold shall not be able to deliver them, Job. i. 21. Naked came I out of my in the day of the wrath of the Lord, mother's womb, and naked shall I return. Zeph. i. 18. 1 Tim. vi. 7. We brought nothing into Mark xii. 41–44. Many that were rich this world, and it is certain we can carry cast much into the treasury of the tem, nothing out. ple. A poor widow east in two mites, which make a farthing. Jesus said, This CCV. Possessing riches but not using poor widow hath cast in more than they them ; the vanity thereof. Prov. xiii. 7. all: For they did cast in of their abun, There is that maketh himself rich, yet dance; but she did cast in all that she hath nothing, There is that maketh had, even all her living, himself poor, yet hath great riches. Eccl, Luke i. 53. He hath filled the hungry vi. 1, 2.-ij. 26. with good things, and the rich he hath CCVI. Riches are attended with care sent empty away: and trouble. Eccl. ii. 4. I made me great Luke xii. 20, &c. See the parable of the rich fool, works, I builded me houses, I planted and Lazarus, Luke xvi. 19 to 25. And of the rich man me vineyards, &c. (to ver. 10.) Ver. 11. I looked on all the works that my hands CCVIII. The advantages which one had wrought, and on the labour that I man hath over another by means of riches, had laboured to do; and behold all was Prov, x, 15. The rich man's wealth is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there his strong city; the destruction of the was no profit. poor is their poverty. Chap. xviii. 11. Ver. 22, 23. For what hath man of xiii. 8. The ransom of a man's life are all his labour, and of the vexation of his his riches. Eccl, vii. 12, |