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 away lying, speak every man truth.” “My youth is renewed like the eagle’s,” Ps. ciii. 5. Secondly, as a stag casting away the horns of pride : “ As the hart panteth after the waterbrooks,” Psalm xlii. 1, Gloss. The hart is burdened with beautiful hair and horns: it attracts or draws up the serpent by its nostrils; which being swallowed, the poison inflames it, whence it most ardently desires the water, on drinking which it sheds its horns and hair : “ Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters,” Isa. lv. 1. Thirdly, as a hawk accepting the plumage of virtue through the grace of the Holy Spirit: “ Does the hawk fly by thy wisdom and stretch her wings to the south,” Job xxxix. 26. Fourthly, as a serpent casting off the skin of the old conversation: “ Seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds; and have put on the new man,” &c., Colos. iii. 9, 10. Fifthly, by taking away the lust of evil love: “ But he knoweth the way that I take : when He hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold,” Job xxiii. 10. (2) He exhorts us to honest labour : “ But rather let him labour.” (3) To the enlargement of charity : “ That he may have to give,” &c. (4) He bids those things be spoken which tend to the edification of faith : “That it may minister grace unto the hearers.” (5) To the showing of kindness : “ And be ye kind one to another.” (6) To tender-heartedness: “ Tender-hearted.” (7) To the mutual forgiveness of injuries: “Forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.”