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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

upon Baals Priests in a heat of zeal scoffing at them Job on his friends to check their pride and conceit of their own wildome No doubt yee are the People Job 12.2 and wisdome shall dye with you And Paul upon the Corinthians for their Laodicean conceit and boast of fulnesse Now yee are rich 1 Cor. 4.8 1 Cor. 14.36 37 full c. and for their pride what came the word of the Lord out from you or came it to you only Beza saith this is a sharp objurgation of them least they should think themselves the only wisemen and all fools but they or that they were the first Christians none before them or none beside them God taught the Jews to take up a taunting Proverb in way of derision against the King of Babylon Isa 14.4 his state and City The Preachers speech to the young man was Ironical Rejoyce in thy youth Eccl. 11.9 q. d. seeing thou art wilful go on and take thy course but know that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement Such was Micaiahs answer to King Ahab when hee asked him 1 King 22.15 shall wee go against Ramoth Gilead to battel or not he said go and prosper q. d. thy Prophets have bidden thee go and thou hast a mind to go go thy way no doubt but thou wilt prosper Ahab resented it as a scoff An Irony is a nipping jeast or a speech that hath the honey of pleasantnesse in its mouth and a sting of rebuke in its taile There is a texterity in speaking truth in an Irony or in a pleasant sentence which may bee taken sometimes with lesse offence then a plain downright speech to be so addicted to joycing as to loose a friend rather than a jeast this becommeth Jewish friendship saith one rather then Christian love Mr. Bain● Eighth Rule In speech speak not so much to shew wit or eloquence as efficatious power of speech to perswade others to good and to disswade them from evil Speak not out of affectation of praise or delight to hear our selves speak well but out of desire of doing good or of drawing others to do well Many speak against eloquence as they do against learning out of ignorance because they know not the worth or use of it for Art hath no enemy but an ignorant person but I speak only against the proud and vain use and shew of it Of Eloquence HEre I will shew you first That eloquence may be used and secondly how 1 Eloquence may bee used yea there may be good use of it because 1 Eloquence is the gift of God which hee bestows on some of his servants not on others as on Aaron I know saith God to Moses of him Fxo. 4.14 Vers 16 Vers 10 that hee can speak well and he shall be thy spokes-man to the people and instead of a mouth to thee Not on Moses for hee was not eloquent but slow of speech Paul was eminent in eloquence therefore the people of Lystra Act. 14.12 call'd him Mercurius because he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the chief speaker or Master of speech Apollos was an eloquent man and mighty in the scriptures Act. 18.24 None of Gods servants should open their mouthes to speak against any of God gifts of which eloquence or the faculty of speech is one 2 Eloquence is a flower of speech both for beauty and sweetnesse which sets off speech with greater grace obtains audience with greater delight and insinuates with more efficacy Though the Gospel was preached at first with greatest plainness of speech 1 Cor. 1.17 and 2.4 yet God hath blessed it since to the furtherance of the gospel The sweetning of speech with eloquence hath been a means sometimes of winning others to hear embrace the Gospel Christ in it Doctor Sibs saith Souls Conflict while Augustine out of curiosity delighted to hear the Eloquence of Ambrose hee was taken with the matter it self sweetly sliding together with the words into his heart Peter Veretus sometime preacher at Geneva was so sweetly Eloquent that hee drew many to bee his hearers who were no friends to Religion and chained his hearers ears to his mouth so as they never thought him tedious but always wished his Sermon longer hee converted thousands to the truth and faith in Christ One saith of Gregory Nazianzen that the true beauty of his Soul did shine forth in his eloquence Rhetorick being both his Companion and his servant It is reported of Mr. Rogers and Mr. Bradford Martyrs that it was hard to say whether there was more force of Eloquence and utterance in their preaching or holinesse in their lives and conversations Both historyes and experience declare that God bestowed an excellent faculty of elocution upon many of his servants both ancient and modern divines whose labours hee blessed to the Conversion of many souls and to the edification of the Church 4 God threatens it as a judgement to take away from Jerusalem and from Judah Isay 3.3 the eloquent Orator or the man skilful in speech and powerful to perswade as well as the wise Counsellour or cunning Artificer Ornamentum maximum reipublicae est eloquentia Philosophorum saith Plato Thus it s made to appear that eloquence is lawfull and usefull 2 I must shew how it should be used 1 Eloquence should flow from us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by a nattiral kind of facility as water out of a fountain some command good language as freely as others do speech Though it bee acquired yet it should not be strained or forced as some use it in imitation of others which to judicious cars sounds harsh and ungrateful 2 Whether our eloquence bee naturall or acquired how ever wee come by it wee should use it without affectation and ostentation and not pride our selves in wit words or phrases An humble Christian will forbear or change such expressions as he conceives may seem elegant to others and hee feels or fears his own heart would bee puffed up therewith when Eloquence is affected or boasted then it shews swelling vanity in the minds of the speakers and is not pleasing in the ears of the hearers 3 Wee should strive to bee rather solid then florid in our speeches yet we may use elegance therein so that our end and aim bee more to affect the hearts than tickle the ears of our Auditors Eccl. 12.10 The Preacher sought to find out acceptable words or words of delight such as are apt not only to sinke into the mind like Davids stone into Goliahs forehead but also to pierce to the heart like a dart of delight Good matter cloathed with good phrase procureth acceptation and suavity of elocution produceth efficacy of perswasion Ninth Rule Speak of good things at home in your own families as yee have occasion to inure your selves unto and to get an habit of fruitfull discourse abroad This was Solomons practice therefore the Queen of Sheba said to

RULES FOR THE Government of the Tongue Together With Directions in six Particular Cases 1 Confession of our faults to Men. 2 Confession of Christ before Men 3 Reprehension of faults in others 4 Christian Communication 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 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 Psal 17.3 I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress LONDON Printed by R. I. for Thomas Newberry and are to be sold at his shop at the three Lions neer the Exchange 1656. To the Reader Christian Reader I Would not trouble the Press or thee with any thing but what I conceive may bee usefull and practical for thy furtherance in grace and obedience the matter whereof I hope will not be burnt when it is tried by fire though the Paper may but that it may bring forth fruit in thee that will remain to promote thy comfort and my account in the day of Christ The good acceptance which my former book entitled Precepts for Christian Practice c. hath as I hear found with sober-wel-minded Christians and the advice of some judicious friends do incourage mee to make this plain peece publick Though Satan seeks to cast an odium upon the holy and precious truths wayes and ordinances of Jesus Christ yea and upon the Books that are written for the Declaration and Defence thereof to bring them all into contempt For Satan feareth that such Books may do poor souls good and his cause hurt which should bee our indeavour to promote as it is his design to hinder This is a common Experiment that as in Preaching so in Printing Satan and his Agents oppose that most which may in probability through Gods blessing be instrumental for publick profit But the God of Truth who loveth Righteousness will throughly plead the cause of his own Truths and Wayes and of the reproaches of his servants from the Tongues and Pens of their enemies in due time Yea the day approacheth wherein God will judge mens Hearts Tongues and Books according to his Gospel Then they who have spoken or written of the matters of God and of his Ministers the thing that is true and right shall bee approved and those that have done otherwise shall to say no more bee reproved Books as well as any other works may help men forward either to Heaven or to Hell and advance their Salvation or aggravate their condemnation A man may do more good or more hurt by writing than by speaking because what is spoken is transient and passeth away but what is written is permanent litera scripta manet and spreads it self further by far for time place and persons than the voice can reach All Christs servants who keep the word of his patience Phil. 1.17 are set for the defence of the Gospel and they must contend earnestly or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Jud. 3. 2 Cor. 13.8 conflict one after another for the Fath which was once for all delivered unto the Saints Why should they not do all they can for the Truth in these dayes of Apostasy Heresy and Blasphemy now that Satan and his manifold Instruments do all they can against the Truth that is by writing as well as by speaking by Pen as by Tongue Satan doth furiously drive on a Malevolent design to draw poor souls into delusion and thereby unto destruction by dispersing scandalous railing Truth-perverting soul-poisoning Pamphlets which come forth of the Pres● like persons out of a Pesthouse with a plague-sore running upon them to infect all that take them into their hands and are taken with them why then should not Christs Ministers 2 Cor. 5.20 who are his Embassadours factor for Christ and as strenuously plead and promote his cause Isa 44.5 in the Press as in the Pulpit and subscribe with their hands unto the Lord and to his truths and waies as well as confess them with their mouths Good books that tend to build up all that read them in faith holiness and obedience Psal 46.4 are like that River the streams whereof make glad the Citie of God Joh. 12. and like that Box of precious Ointment which Mary brake and poured on Christs head the odour whereof filled the house like clusters of ripe Grapes passing under the Press the Juice whereof is fit to be transported to all Nations So the pious labours of Gods servants passing under the Press are fit to be dispersed abroad among Christians far and neer Mr. Cotton The Penning and Reading of godly Books as a Reverend man of God now with God said is a singular improvement of the Communion of Saints as whereby wee injoy sweet and gracious conference with the Saints though unknown to us though absent in place and distant in time yea many ages before us and so partake in the Communion of their most precious Gifts as if they were present with us or as if wee had been long acquainted with them I doubt not but it hath been a cordial to some of Gods servants at death to think and say to God in their manner and measure as Christ did in his Father Joh. 17.4 I have glorified thee on the Earth I have done the work thou gavest mee to do to wit by writing as well as by speaking by Books as by Sermons When I had the former Treatise under my hand this came into my mind that to adde to the Government of the Thoughts and of the Affections some Rules for the Government of the Tongue might bee suitable seasonable and profitable But I labouring under some bodily Infirmities laid the Thoughts thereof aside yet afterwards God revived them in mee and made my spirit willing to undertake the work and assisted mee graciously in it blessed bee his Name And now Reader I present it to thee and put it into thy hand as a Gospel-Grammar to teach thee not variety of Tongues but Sanctitie and Excellency of speech The Art of speaking well that is the Language of Canaan or of a Christian Do not only look on this Book by Perusal but live it by Practice to wit to the Rules described therein and it will lead thee towards Perfection in some good measure on earth though the full attainment therof bee kept as a Reserve for Heaven The Lord accompany this Book with his Presence and Power that it may bee effectuall to tame that unruly Member thy Tongue and to make thee a good Linguist in the School of Christ Psal 16.9 with Act. 2.26 then will thy Tongue be thy glory indeed To this end I beg a concurrence of thy Prayers with mine at the Throne of Grace that God would bless it and make it a blessing to all that read it That the fruit of it like