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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
book_n	call_v	speak_v	write_v	2,775	5	5.2078	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09391	A direction for the government of the tongue according to Gods word	Perkins, William, 1558-1602.	1593 (1593)	STC 19688; ESTC S107173	27,185	80

being smitten maketh a great noise it is a token that it is emptie and so the sound of many wordes shewes a vaine heart The Gentiles have said that God gave a man one tongue and two eares that hee might heare more and speake lesse Valerius Maximus reporteth of Xenocrates that being in the companie of some that used railing speeches held his tongue and being asked why he did so answered That it had repented him that he had spoken but it never repented him that he had helde his peace And the proverbe is He that will speake what he will shall heare what he would not To the framing of our speech Ambrose requireth three things a yoke a ballance and a metwand a yoke to keepe it in a stayed gravitie a ballance to giue it weight of reason a metwand to keepe it in measure and moderation This rule must be practised carefully for the avoiding of chiding brawling and contention Let nothing be done by contention Philip. 2.3 Let students and schollars learne to practise this for what shall another mans opinion hurt thee though in reasoning he be not of thy minde in every point Here take heede of the spirit of Contradiction whereby some by thwarting and contradicting euery man at length prooue either obstinate Heretikes or lewde Atheists and make no bones to contradict the holy Ghost and to call the scriptures in question and dispute that there is no God Nowe if a man speake necessarie thinges though he continue his speech till midde-night as Paul did it can not be called immoderate or superfluous talke CAP. X. Of Writing ALL this which is set downe 〈◊〉 concerning speech must as well be practised in writing as in speaking Whereby are condemned ballads bookes of loue all idle discourses and histories being nothing els but inticements and baites unto manifold sinnes fitter for Sodom and Gomorrah then for Gods Church And it must be followed as well in speaking of Latine or any other tongue as English which students haue not marked for whereas they will not sweare in English yet in Latine they make no bones of it saying Mehercule mediùs fidiùs aedipol per deos immortales And whereas they holde but one God in judgement yet in their Latine exercises they speake of Iupiter and of the immortall gods after the manner of the heathen What a shame is this that a Christian and that in Christian schooles should either be ashamed or not use to speake as a Christian but as Atheists do If thou haue many tongues and knowest not howe to use them well hee which hath but his mother tongue ordering it aright is a better linguist then thou CAP. XI Of Silence WIse and godly silence is as excellent a vertue as holy speech for hee knoweth not howe to speake which knoweth not howe to holde his tongue The rule of our silence must be the lawe of God By meanes of which wise consideration must be had whether the thing which we haue in mind be for Gods glory and our neighbours good which done wee are answearably to speake to be silent Here must be considered the things of which silence must be used and the persons before whome The things are many First if any trueth be to the hinderance of Gods glorie or of the good of our neighbour it must be concealed The concealing of the trueth is either in whole or in parte In whole when the speaking of the least worde is hurtfull As for example the father and the sonne are both sicke at once the sonne dieth first the father asketh whether his sonne be dead or not if it be said no an untrueth is told if yea then the fathers griefe is increased and his death hastened therefore silence is the best In dayes of persecution holy Martyrs haue chosen rather to suffer death then to reueale their brethren that haue bene of their priuate assemblies with them The concealing of a thing in part is when a man speakes a little of the trueth and concealeth the rest Which is warranted in all good and lawfull proceedings which manifestly tend to the glorie of God When Samuel 〈…〉 David he answereth the Lord and saith 〈◊〉 ●an I goe for if Saul 〈◊〉 of it he will kill me Then the Lord answered 〈…〉 with thee and say I am come to 〈◊〉 sacrifice to the 〈◊〉 and call for 〈◊〉 to sacrifice and I will 〈◊〉 thee 〈…〉 had shewed King Zedekiah how he might escape death then the King said unto him Let no man knowe of these wordes c. but if the princes understand that I have talked with thee and they come unto thee and say unto thee Declare unto us what the King hath said unto thee c. then shalt thou say unto them I humbly besought the King that he would not cause me to 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 house to die there And afterward he so answered and the matches was not perceived The like was practised by 〈◊〉 Actes 23.6 Secondly thou art to conceale thine owne secrets Sampson revealing his owne secret Iudg. 〈◊〉 overthrewe himselfe If thou desire ease by revealing then ●ell them but 〈◊〉 fewe and to such as are faithfull That which thou wouldest not haue knowen 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for howe shall another keepe thy counsell when thou canst not doe it Keepe thy friendes 〈◊〉 likewise if it be not hurtfull and let ministers conceale the sinnes and wantes that trouble the conscience of such as are dying Let Magistrates conceale thinges done in the Senate especially concerning warre least they be reuealed to the enemie If God bring any strange thing to passe speake not boldely of it but in silence wonder Iob at the consideration of Gods Majestie in his workes saith Beholde I am vile what shall I answere thee I will lay my hande upon my mouth Na●●b and Abehu for offering incense with strange fire before the Lord were both distroyed with fire which beeing done Moses told Aaron that God would bee sanctified in them that come neere him and be glorified before all the people and then the text saith but Aaron helde his peace When Peter had taught the Gentiles and after returned to Hierusalem they of the circumcision contended with him he then rendreth a reason of his fact which being made they were silent For so the text is When they heard these thinges they helde their peace and glorified GOD. When Gods judgementes befall men among us if wee speake any thing we must judge charitable Blessed is hee that judgeth wisely of the poore the Lorde shall deliver him in the time of trouble Thirdely the infirmities and sinnes of our neighbours are alwayes to bee concealed unlesse it be in the case before named that wee finde our selues called of God to speake He that covereth a transgression seeketh love If God in mercie cover his sinnes why shouldest thou reveale them Salomon saith It is the glorie of a man to passe by an infirmitie Fourthly all unseemely matters