Note, 1. Our comfort depends very much upon the testimony of our own
consciences, for us or against us. The belly is here put for the
conscience, as ch. xx. 27. Now it is of great consequence to us whether
that be satisfied, and what that is filled with, for, accordingly, will
our satisfaction be and our inward peace. 2. The testimony of our
consciences will be for us, or against us, according as we have or have
not governed our tongues well. According as the fruit of the mouth is
good or bad, unto iniquity or unto righteousness, so the character of
the man is, and consequently the testimony of his conscience concerning
him. "We ought to take as great care about the words we speak as we do
about the fruit of our trees or the increase of the earth, which we are
to eat; for, according as they are wholesome or unwholesome, so will
the pleasure or the pain be wherewith we shall be filled." So bishop
Patrick.