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A91733	Rules for the government of the tongue: together, with directions in six particular cases. [brace] 1 Confession of our faults to men. 2 Confession of Christ before men. 3 Reprehension of faults in others. 4 Christian communication. [brace] Vrbanity and eloquence. 5 Consolation of the afflicted. 6 Self-commendation, and a disproof of perfection in this life. Added, as a supplement, to the Rules for governing [brace] 1 the thoughts, 2 the affections, in the Precepts for Christian practice, or, The rule of the new creature, new model'd. / By Edward Reyner, minister of the Gospel in Lincolne.	Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668.; Reyner, Edward, 1600-1668. Precepts for Christian practice.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1230; Thomason E1594_2; ESTC R208861	220,132	401

of Reproof doth not heal but hurt both the parties scil the Reprover and the Reproved Therefore first take a Reproof kindly from another and digest it well afterwards give him a gentle Reproof as there is occasion and hereby thou may both set him a Pattern and lay an ingagement upon him to take a Reproof well from thee The Third thing follows scil Reasons of it which may bee drawn from the Necessity Commodity and Excellency of Reproof 1 From the Necessity of it in it self Necessity for both the Law and the Gospel command it Levit. 19 17. Mat. 18.15 and that in respect 1 Of our selves 2 Of others 1 In respect of our selves its needfull for us to reprove others that offend 1 To bear witnesse against sin in others and not to contract the guilt or soil of it to our selves Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thine heart rebuking thou shalt rebuke him that thou bear not sin for him i. e. guilt and punishment for his sake for not reproving him To leave others in their sins unreproved is to be partakers of other mens sins Qui non verat peccare cum possit jubet Ephes 5. which wee should not bee by our silence no more than draw others into sin by our speech Have no fellowship saith Paul with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but rather reprove them The evils wee reprove in others cannot cleave to us nor bee charged upon us but hereby wee keep our selves free and fair from the Taint spot and attainder of them 2 To discharge our selves from the blood of others souls which God may require at our hands for suffering sin upon them unrebuked That threat in Ezek. 3.18 lyes though mainly against the Minister yet not only but against private persons who neglect their duty therein If thou speakest not to warn the wicked from his wicked way to save his life hee shall dye in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thine hand The ruin of others will bee imputed to us if they perish through want of our admonition This Menace should set home the duty of Reproof Act. 20.26 and the danger of neglect to our hearts Paul could not say I am pure from the blood of all men If he had not been a faithfull Reprover as well as a diligent Instructor 2 Reproof is needfull in respect of others either that offend or that stand by 1 Of them that offend 1 To save them from sin death and Hell Hee who by wise Reproof converteth the sinner from the Errour of his way shall save a soul from death and shall hide a multitude of sins Jam. 5.20 Reproof is Gods Physick as needfull for the cure of souls as purging or letting of blood or plaisters are for mens bodies Reproof is Gods ordinance to pull a soul out of the fire of sin and Hell which else would bee burnt or rather be burning everlastingly out of a pit of corruption which without such a hand of Reproof reached forth to recover him would sink and bee drowned to save a soul that else may perish to gain a soul to God and godlinesse to his Truths and wayes and to our selves in true affection that is in danger to be lost Tell thy Brother saith Christ between thee and him alone If hee shall hear thee thou hast gained thy Brother Mat. 18.15 Now to gain or save a soul is a more worthy work than to win or save a World because one soul is more worth than a World If there be need of lifting up a Brothers Deut. 22.4 Exod. 23.5 yea enemies Oxe or Asse that is fallen or lyeth under his burden Thou shalt surely help him up Vers 4. or bringing it back when it goeth astray Is there not great need of restoring and reducing a Brother when hee is faln or wanders and of Reproof as a means thereof should wee take pity and care of a Neighbours Oxe and Asse and not of his soul 2 Reproof is needfull to keep back the great Judgement from them to wit of not being reproved As it is a great mercy of God to send his servants to reprove us for our faults and not suffer sin to lye upon us nor us to lye in it and for us to carry us so as no Righteous person may be afraid or unwilling to tell us of what they see amiss in us So it is a grievous Judgement for God to take away Reprovers from a Nation or a person for God to give over reproving of men by his Servants or to forbid them to do it It is a sign hee hath a purpose to destroy them When God threatens to plague Judah for their Rebellion and utterly to cast them off Ezek. 3.26 hee imposeth silence upon the Prophet Ezekiel as a heavy Judgement to them so as he should reprove their miscarriage no more I will make thy Tongue cleave to the roof of thy mouth that thou shalt be dumb and shalt not bee to them a Reprover for they are a Rebellious house Ephraim was in a desperate state when God gave forth that Prohibition Let no man reprove another Hos 4.4 for this people are as they that strive with the Priest that is will endure no Reprover Therefore saith God Let them alone If they will sin let them if they will go on in their wickednesse and so destroy themselves let them I will contend no longer with them by Reproofs This is the high way to Hell yea to go poste to the Devil without stop or let or any turn when God forbids others to reprove us that wee may go on to fill up the measure of our Iniquity and run to the pit of Hell and no body stay us Then God passeth that hardening sin-sealing sentence upon men Rev. 22.11 Hee that is unjust let him bee unjust still and never amend hee that is filthy let him be filthy still and never bee made clean when hee takes away Reproof from them which might have been a means of their amending and cleansing Then it is no priviledge to any man not to be reproved for his faults no more than it was to Cain not to bee killed to live a miserable life worse than death to bee a spectacle of Gods wrath and judgement To want Reproof is a fearfull judgement from God and a lamentable state of man Is not then Reproof needfull 2 As in respect of the Offenders so of by-standers or of others that see and hear of their offence that they may take warning by their Reproofs not to do the like as they would avoid the blame and shame thereof Them that sin to wit scandalously and openly rebuke before all that others also may fear saith Paul 1 Tim. 5.20 that is be awed thereby and kept from falling into the like sins By a publick Reproof many may receive Profit and much evil may bee prevented thereby to others as well as advantages may come to the offenders themselves Commodity

13.12 for here wee know but in part but in Heaven wee shall know as wee are known and see Christ as hee is 1 Joh. 3.2 The knowledge we have of God and Christ here is the beginning of life eternal Joh. 17.3 but the end or Perfection of it is in Heaven 2 Obedience Christ directs us to pray only for that which God would have us to do For Christ framed his plat-form of prayer he gives us in Mat. 6.10 according to the Will of God his Father Now hee hath taught us to pray Thy will bee done on Earth by us as it is done in Heaven by Angels and Saints to wit cheerfully sincerely holily fully constantly or as wee shall do it in the Kingdome of glory when wee shall sin no more This Petition implyes that no mans obedience is perfect because that wee pray for is not yet attained the good things wee do wee cannot perfect them Prayer presupposeth both want of that wee ask and Impotency in our selves to attain it or that it is out of our power A thing is said to bee done which is so in doing that it shall certainly bee finished In doing Gods Will wee should indeavour to write after the coppy and to come as neer the pattern Christ set us or proposed to us as wee can here though wee cannot perfectly conform to it till wee come in Heaven 3 The Saints Union or Unity This is 1 Very much pressed as their duty Ephes 4.3 to 8. Phil. 2.1 2. I beseech you Brethren saith Paul to the Corinthians by the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that yee all speak the same thing that there bee no divisions among you but that yee bee perfectly joyned together in the same mind and in the same judgement 1 Cor. 1.10 2 It is prayed for by Christ for all beleevers That they all may bee one as thou Father art in mee and I in thee that they also may be one in us Joh. 17.21 I in them and thou in mee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that they may bee made perfect in one or perfected into one that is perfectly compacted and conjoyned vers 23. Piseator in Joh. 17.23 That they may by one faith bee tyed together as Members of one body whereof Christ is the Head and by love bee knit together and cleave one to another But though the Saints Union among themselves bee begun and carryed on on earth yet not brought to Perfection till they come in Heaven For four Reasons 1 Because the means of their Union as Faith and Love are both of them imperfect here and something is still lacking in them both 2 There are remains of darknesse and corruption in them so long as they continue here which cause divisions and differences in opinion and affections 3 Till wee all come into the Unity of the Faith Ephes 4.13 and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect man unto the measure of the Stature of the fulness of Christ which cannot be till we all come into Heaven wee cannot come to perfect Vnity in Judgement and Affection Ioh. 17.23 4 Christ seems in that petition to have respect to the consummation of this Vnion in Heaven not only among themselves but with him and his Father because hee prayeth in the next verse for their glorification that all true beleevers may bee with him Ioh. 17.24 where hee is and behold his glory that is in Heaven where they shall bee companions with him in glory Col. 3.4 for ever Though the Vnion between Christ and Beleevers here bee very near and sure and indissoluble yet it is not so full and clear nor perfected untill wee bee joyned unto the Lord by sight in Heaven as wee are by faith on earth 2 Cor. 5 6 7. knowing saith the Apostle that while wee are at home in the body wee are absent or from home from the Lord. 4 Glorification This should bee sought for here though it cannot bee found or attained till hereafter Wee are commanded to strive in this life to enter in at the strait gate Luk. 13.24 Yet wee cannot come to this gate to wit of Heaven much lesse enter in at it till wee dye Paul laboured by all means while hee lived Phil. 3.11 to attain to the Resurrection of the dead that is to the estate of Grace and Glory that follows after it for both body and soul Obj. 2 Did not Christ command or counsel the young man to bee perfect here who asked him Good Master what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life Mat. 19.16 21. Is not Perfection then attainable in this life Ans Christs Counsel or Command to the young man If thou will bee perfect go sell that thou hast c. was special to him for Tryall Conviction and Discovery like that of God to Abraham Go offer thy Son Isaac for a burnt Offering not general given to all The man glorying in his works that he had kept all the Commandements from his youth up affected the praise of perfection what lack I yet Christ to convince him of his pride errour and vanity therein said unto him If thou wilt bee perfect c. as if hee had said if thou art really that which thou boastest thy self to be to wit perfect give a proof hereof in selling and giving all that thou hast and following mee Or if thou would bee as thou pretends perfect in Righteousnesse and Charity then go and sell all and give to the poor and come and take up the Crosse and follow mee So Mark hath it chap. 10.21 Or Christ spake this to convince him of his imperfection when hee boasted of his Perfection All these Commandements have I kept from my youth yet lackest thou one thing saith Christ Sel all and distribute to the poor Luk. 18.21 22. Christ might have said thou art therefore guilty of breaking all the Commandements because thou bragst thou hast kept them all and thou therefore lackst every thing because thou art conceited that thou lackest nothing Having declared in what sense the Saints are said in Scripture to bee perfect I proceed to the Second thing That no man can bee fully perfect or without sin in this life which I shall prove by six Arguments The first Argument To bee fully perfect without sin in this life is contrary to Scripture to Experience yea to the state of the Saints here 1 To the holy Scriptures which expresly deny the same as was declared before 1 King 8.38 46. Prov. 20.9 Eccles 7.20 2 This is contrary to the universal experience of all Gods servants who have felt and bewailed corruption in themselves even till death and have acknowledged the same before God and man and have disowned Iob 9 20. yea disclaimed all thoughts of their own Perfection in this life as Job did and Paul at large in Rom. 7.14 to the end though a holy Apostle complains bitterly of the sinfull corruption that did