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A14853	The araignement of an vnruly tongue Wherein the faults of an euill tongue are opened, the danger discouered, the remedies prescribed, for the taming of a bad tongue, the right ordering of the tongue, and the pacifying of a troubled minde against the wrongs of an euill tongue. By George Web, preacher of Gods word at Stepleashton in Wiltshire.	Webbe, George, 1581-1642.	1619 (1619)	STC 25156; ESTC S102125	41,207	214

partie slandered and the receiuer of the slaunder with one stroke And as this vnruly Tongue doth go with one of these foure Arrowes alwayes ready vpon his string Iam. 3.8 Psal 58.4 So it carrieth with it a Viall full of deadly poison the poison of it is like the poison of a Serpent and that not of an ordinary sort of Serpents but venenum Ptiudos Psal 140.3 Deut. 32. Iob. 20.16 the poison of Aspes is vnder his lips which kind of poison is elsewhere in sacred Scripture noted to be most noxious and pernicious Lastly His company the companions of an euill Tongue for how shall one better bee knowne then by his company are these First Idlenesse a lazie lowzie rascall which will not betake him to any labor Pro. 20.4 by reason of the cold a disorderly liuer 2. Thes 3 11. no worker yet a busie-body and a great prater his condition is beggery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and his clothing Ragges The second companion of an euill Tongue is Malice a mad-brain'd Monster with a sullen look Pro. 6.11 Pro. 23.21 and a fiery face with superfluity of choler He can neuer speake well Iam. 1.21 1. Pet. 2.1 but is full of guile dissimulation and euill speaking Another companion of an euill Tongue is Enuie whose description is this A withered bodie Ouid. Metamor l. 2. feeding vpon it selfe hauing a pale face without bloud a leane body without iuice squint-eyes black teeth an heart full of gall a tongue tipt with poyson neuer laughing but when others weep neuer sleeping but musing vpon mischiefe And this aboue all other companions of an euill tongue is most outragious Pro. 27.4 For Wrath is cruell and anger raging but who can stand before enuie Another companion of an euill tongue is curiosity a finicall fellow of a spruce gesture hauing Eagles eyes and large eares desirous euer to be acquainted with other mens euils a busie prier into other mens behauiour Plutarch de curiosnate which with Plutarchs Lamia doth put on his eyes when he goeth abroad and layeth them aside when he is at home This curiositie and an euill tongue are linked together by the Apostle as vnseparable companions 1. Tim. 5.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pratlers and busie-bodies speaking things which are not comely Another companion of an euill tongue is Subtilty an old foxe with a warie and dissembling gate His throate is an open sepulchre Psal 5.9 Psal 55.2 he flattereth with his tongue the words of his mouth are softer then butter yet warre is in his heart Luther in Psal 15.3 Whose vsuall practice as Martin Luther noteth is to transforme himselfe into an Angell of Light and vnder fine prefaces and glorious termes to back-bite The cunning hypocrisy of it and the Tongue together is elegantly by eloquent Bernard represented vnto vs. Bern. in Cant. ser 24. Some there bee saith hee whose stomakes being glutted with the faults infirmities of their brethren when they meane to disgorge the same doe shrowd their malice and hatred vnder the cloak of feigned respect after an enforced sigh with great grauity and with a well composed countenance they will mutter forth their slanderous speeches And such backbitings and slanders saith he are so much the more dangerous because the Hearers are thereby occasioned to imagine and conceiue that the same proceedeth neither of enuie nor ill will but out of meere sorrow and compassion Another companion of an euill Tongue is Detraction an hungry cōpanion with a biting tooth a priuy thiefe frō anothers good name one that laboureth to hide the good graces that are in others and to suborne contrary surmises as the diuell did to our first parents concerning God Gen. 3.9 Iob 1.9 and vnto God concerning Iob. And this Detraction doth worke sometimes vpon bare suspition as the children of Ammon slandered Dauid in the eares of their Lord Hanun as if he had sent Embassadours vnder pretence of loue and honour 2. Sam. 10.3 to spie out the Land and to take his Citie and destroy it Sometimes without any ground at all or shadow of iust suspition as Korah Dathan and Abiram did detract from Moses and Aaron Numb 16. accusing them that they went about to exalt thēselues aboue the whole Congregation and did take too much vpon them Sometimes by relating false reports as Ziba did of his Master Mephibosheth 2. Sam. 16.3 as if hee had affected the Kingdome of Israel and therefore remained behind at Ierusalem Sometimes by mis-reporting speeches or actions in themselues warrantable yet wrested to another sense then they were done or spoken as the false Witnesses did the words of our blessed Sauiour Ioh. 2.19 concerning the dissolution and reparation of the Temple of his Body 1. Sam. 21. 22.9 and Doeg the dealings of Dauid and his company with Abimelech 1. Sam. 21. Another companion of an euill Tongue is Impudencie a brazen-faced shamelesse cōpanion The Psalmist compareth him to a mad dogge Psa 59.3 6 which runneth vp down from place to place rauing and raging and is neuer satisfied Hee hath learned of the Sycophant in Plautus Plutarch in lib. de discernend amic ab adulat to sweare forsweare face and out-face any thing and with Mede the Parasite of Alexander the Great hath proposed vnto himselfe this Maxime both in flattery and in infamy to do it audacter boldly and impudently These are the seuen hellish spirits which an euill Tongue doth take vnto himselfe Luk. 11.26 as his choisest Companions and with whō most commonly and familiarly hee doth conuerse And these are the most proper Characters and markes whereby wee may know him and finde him out CHAP. V. The tongues examination 2. Plea for it selfe 3. Confutation of this plea. BY this time hauing throughly pursued our Malefactor The examination of the Tongue we haue found him out brought him Coram wee should now proceede to his punishment and to denounce the sentence against him but that as Nichodemus somtime said to the Sanhedrim of the Iewes it might be thus excepted against our procedings Doth our law iudge any man before it heare him and know what he hath done Therfore that we proceed iudiciously and according vnto law Let vs call the Malefactor to the Barre and heare him plead for himselfe if so bee hee haue any thing to say for himselfe vvhy sentence should not be denounced against him Wherein wee can expect no lesse then a cunning Apologie The Tongues first Plea The necessary vse and seruiceable office of it for this subtill Tongue is not now to learne to tell his tale he will pleade his necessary vse and the good seruice that hee hath done that hee hath beene alwayes an Officer in the body corporall least idle of all the members more seruiceable then all the sences and hath beene imployed in most aduētures as the onely Ambassador Interpreter and

not to affirme that Talebearers and Talehearers are guilty alike Bernard de inter Dom. Jdem de confid lib. 2. in fine And the same Author is very vehement in this point Whether saith he a Tale-bearer or a Tale-receiuer bee more dangerous and damnable it is hard to iudge for the Talebearer hath the Diuell in his tongue and the Talehearer hath the Diuelin his eare Now that wee may the better keepe off the slanderer Remedies against the bringing of euil reports vnto vs. and Talebearer and so keepe our selues from beeing accessary to their sinnes by receiuing their euill reports there are three principall remedies to be obserued of vs and to be opposed against them who shall goe about to trouble our eares with false reports The first is a deafe eare A deafe eare we must not afford an euill Tongue so much as the hearing Eccles 7.21 Eccl. 7.21 Giue no eare neither take heede to their words A notable example to this purpose we haue in Gedaliab the sonne of Ahikam Ierem. 40. Ier. 40.14 15 16. vnto whome when Iohanan the sonne of Kareah had told in secret a conspiracy of Ishmael the sonne of Nethaniah that hee was hired by BAALIS King of the Ammonites to slay him and oftentimes related this report vnto him and that with great vehemency Wherefore should he slay thee and so the Iewes which are gathered vnto thee shall bee scattered and the remnant in Iudah perish Although the report indeede was true as afterward it proued and Iohanan spake in good will and with an honest minde yet Gedaliah good man not suspecting any such attempt hoping the best and Ioth to entertaine any hard conceit against Ishmael would by no meanes giue eare to this report but sharpely reproued Iohanan and forbad him to speak any more of it Thou shalt not doe this thing saith he for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael A notable example for our imitation although not for improuident simplicity yet against ouer-rash credulity that we stop our eares against such encharmers and shut them against the reports of an euill tongue The second remedy against the receit of an euill Tongue A frowuing look is a Frowning looke for so saith Salomon Pro. Pro. 25.23 25.23 As the North winde driueth away raine so doth an angry countenance the slandering tongue When the skie is full of clouds and in all likelyhood ready to powre down their raine vpon the earth if the winde change into the North that Northerne winde will scatter abroad the clouds and stop them from breaking forth into a Tempest and therefore it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the clearer of the skie Euen so when a tale-bearer Hesiod or slanderer doth come vnto vs with a cloud of many idle words which he desireth to powre in as rain into our eares a frowning countenance and an angry look will put them off To all euill-tongued creatures therefore we should shew our selues sterne as vnwilling to defile our eares with their pollution For as Hierome well obserueth if with a silent countenance wee giue eare vnto the Tale-bearer Hieron ad Fab. we shall encourage him to slander but if wee heare him not with some shew of delight hee will learne not willingly to speake that which hee shall perceiue is not willingly heard The third Remedy against the reports of an euill tongue A sharpe reproofe is a sharpe reproofe It is the Apostles rule Ephe. 5.11 that we should haue no fellowship with the vnfruitfull works of darkenesse but rather reproue them As our Sauiour sharply reproued Peter for his flatterie bidding him Mat. 16.25 Auant Sathan for hee was an offence vnto him So should we giue a sharpe check to a slanderous Tongue bidding it Auant Sathan for it is an offence vnto vs. If we cannot by countenance put the slanderer to silence we must by speech curbe his wicked tongue and not that alone but if they will not desist wee are to complaine of them and if all this will not serue wee must endeuour according to our place and power that reall punishments be inflicted on them Psal 101.5 according to that of Dauid Psalm 101.5 Him that priuily slandereth his neighbour I will destroy And thus much briefly for our direction against the hearing of an euill Tongue when before vs it is readie to traduce others Now we are in the next place to consider how wee are to demeane our selues in case of euill reports against our selues CHAP. XII How to endure the stroke of an euill Tongue when it concerneth our selues EVery one is a better Physicion to another then to himselfe The difficulty of enduring an euill report against our selues wee can better endure the sight of other mens wounds then feele them in our owne bodies It is hard to carry our selues vpright in the hearing of euill reports against others more hard to endure them when they light vpon our selues yet both these are to bee learned and this latter the sooner that wee may the better performe the former A good man must endeuour to endure an euill Tongue The duety for it and to carry himselfe like a Christian in the bearing of the same For thus the Apostle doth admonish vs 2. Cor. 6.4.5 6 7 8. 2. Cor. 6. In all things approue your selues as the seruants of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults inlabours in watchings in fastings by purenesse by knowledge by long suffering by kindnesse by loue vnfeigned by the word of truth by the power of God by the armour of righteousnesse on the right hand and on the left by honour and dishonour by euill report and good report An excellent lesson for our imitation yet hard to bee learned by reason of our inbred corruption And therefore that we may the sooner bee brought to the practice of it these foure vertues are necessarily required first Patience secondly Experience thirdly Meditation fourthly Prouidence Patience is a principall Antidote against an euill tongue Patience for so our blessed Sauiour doth aduise vs Math. Mat. 21.19 21.19 In patience possesse your soules And the Apostle Iames Bee yee patient vnto the comming of the Lord Iam. 5.7 Iam. 5.7 There is no such salue against the wound of a skolding tongue a railing tongue a slanderous tongue or any other kinde of wicked tongues as Patience Hee that is patient saith Salomon is a man of great vnderstanding Pro. 14.29 And againe Hee that is slow to anger Pro. 16.32 is better then the mighty and hee that ruleth his owne spirit is better then he that conquereth a Citie This Patience is like vnto the Tree which Moses cast into Marahs Spring Ex. 25.25 and it seasoned the bitternesse of the waters It is like Ionathans Armour-bearer 1. Sam. 14. which helped him to vanquish all his enemies That Patience is an excellent vertue