Of the Tongue.
The Tongue of man is a most honorable member, wherefore it is called mans honour and his glory, Gen. 49.6. Psal. 16.9. My glory rejoyceth, because it is the instru∣ment for to glorifie God.
The portraiture of the image of God in man: In his three estates, of creation. Restauration. Glorification. Digested into two parts. The first containing, the image of God both in the body and soule of man, and immortality of both: with a description of the severall members of the body, and the two principall faculties of the soule, the understanding and the will; in which consisteth his knowledge, and liberty of his will. The second containing, the passions of man in the concupiscible and irascible part of the soule: his dominion ouer the creatures; also a description of his active and contemplative life; with his conjunct or married estate. Whereunto is annexed an explication of sundry naturall and morall observations for the clearing of divers Scriptures. All set downe by way of collation, and cleared by sundry distinctions, both out of the schoolemen, and moderne writers. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. By I. Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Christs Gospel.
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- The portraiture of the image of God in man: In his three estates, of creation. Restauration. Glorification. Digested into two parts. The first containing, the image of God both in the body and soule of man, and immortality of both: with a description of the severall members of the body, and the two principall faculties of the soule, the understanding and the will; in which consisteth his knowledge, and liberty of his will. The second containing, the passions of man in the concupiscible and irascible part of the soule: his dominion ouer the creatures; also a description of his active and contemplative life; with his conjunct or married estate. Whereunto is annexed an explication of sundry naturall and morall observations for the clearing of divers Scriptures. All set downe by way of collation, and cleared by sundry distinctions, both out of the schoolemen, and moderne writers. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. By I. Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Christs Gospel.
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- Weemes, John, 1579?-1636.
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- 1636.
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"The portraiture of the image of God in man: In his three estates, of creation. Restauration. Glorification. Digested into two parts. The first containing, the image of God both in the body and soule of man, and immortality of both: with a description of the severall members of the body, and the two principall faculties of the soule, the understanding and the will; in which consisteth his knowledge, and liberty of his will. The second containing, the passions of man in the concupiscible and irascible part of the soule: his dominion ouer the creatures; also a description of his active and contemplative life; with his conjunct or married estate. Whereunto is annexed an explication of sundry naturall and morall observations for the clearing of divers Scriptures. All set downe by way of collation, and cleared by sundry distinctions, both out of the schoolemen, and moderne writers. The third edition, corrected and enlarged. By I. Weemse, of Lathocker in Scotland, preacher of Christs Gospel." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A73382.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.
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Secondly, a man hath two earēs, and but one Tongue, [unspec 2] to teach him to bee swift to heare and slow to speake, Iam. 1.19.
Thirdly, there is but one Tongue in man, [unspec 3] to teach him not to be bilinguis, of a double Tongue. God will not have a heart and a heart in a man, Psal. 12. so hee will not have a Tongue and a Tongue in him, Pro. 8.13, that is, a double Tongue.
Before the fall, * 1.1 the Tongue of man was like the pen of a swift writer, Psal. 45.1. and uttered those things which his heart indited: but since the fall, it is a world of ini∣quity, and defileth the whole bodie, and setteth on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire of hell. Iam. 3.6. now it is an unruly evill, and filled with deadly poyson, Iam. 3.8. [Coll. 2]
Before the fall, he spake but with one Tongue; but since the fall, he is bilinguis, hee speakes with a double tongue, Prov. 8.13. and sometimes trilinguis, Eccles. 33. Lingua tertia commovit multos, a third tongue hath troubled ma∣ny. The Chalde paraphrase calleth a backbiter, a man with a three fold Tongue, or a Tongue which hath three stings. The Iewes give an example of it in Doeg, who killed three at once with his evill report; Saul, to whom hee made the evill report; the Priests, of whom he made the evill report: and Himselfe, who made the evill report.
The Heathen in the dedication of the severall parts of mans body, gave the eares to Minerva, the tongue to Mercurie, the armes to Neptune, and the eye to Cu∣pid, &c.
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* 1.1
A collation betwixt the innocent and old Adam