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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

patients disease and the Chirurgeon his sore before they can apply proper healing salves or medicines wee must take measure of their condition before wee can cut out or shape a suit of consolation fitting for them Paul sent Tychicus unto the Colossians for the same purpose Col. 4.8 that hee might know their estate and comfort their hearts The Second Rule When we know their estate wee should pity them and sympathize with them Col. 3.12 for comfort commeth out of the bowels of mercies which wee should put on as the fruits thereof Job 19.21 c. 6.14 which Job● friends wanted towards him in his miseries though hee beg'd it earnestly of them have pity upon mee have pity upon mee O ye my friends for the hand of God hath touched mee therefore they proved miserable comforters Job 2.11 though they came to mourn with him and to comfort him God is first a Father of mercies then a God of all consolations 2 Cor. 1.3 4. hee comforts his people because he pities them Consolation flows from Compassion both in God and man except wee lay others cases to our hearts wee will not speak to their hearts The Third Rule When wee know their cases and pity them wee should apply comforts suitable to their needs as 1 Mat. 6. If their case bee necessity observe how Christ comforts his Disciples against outward wants 1 From Gods Providence toward fouls of the Heaven Vers 26.28 and flowers of the Earth how hee feeds the one and cloaths the other and are yee not much better than they will hee not much more feed and cloath you 2 From Gods Knowledge of their necessities Your heavenly Father knoweth all things yee have need of Vers 32 3 From Gods Promise Vers 33. First seek the Kingdom of God Psal 34.9 10 c. and all these things shall be added to you scil as an overplus Mark how David comforts them that fear God against want 2 Or if the case be death of friends 1 Thess 4.13 to the end Paul prescribes several comforts to prevent immoderate grief upon that occasion As 1 That Christ dyed and rose again Vers 14 2 They that dye in the Lord sleep in Jesus 3 Christ at his glorious coming will bring their souls with him Vers 15 16 and raise their bodies out of the dust and re-unite them for ever and the dead in Christ shall rise first they that have lain long in the dust shall have their bodies first raised and cloathed with immortality glory and incorruption which is the priviledge of the dead above them that are found living at Christs coming those shall rise before these shall be wrapt up 4 Those that are then living and their formerly deceased friends shall be caught up together in the Clouds Vers 1● to meet the Lord in the air 5 So shall they ever be with the Lord that imports perpetual fruition of glorious felicity Dear friends whom Death dissundered shall then meet and never part again Vers 18 Wherefore saith the Apostle comfort one another with these words This is a duty 2 S●● 〈…〉 to comfort others when their friends dye David sent to comfort Hanun after Nahash his Fathers death Many of the Jews came to comfort Mary and Martha for their brothers death Joh 11.19 31 Jer. 16.6 7 It is threatned as a sad affliction that none shall comfort the living in their mournings for their deceased friends Parents or others by sending them meat or cups of consolation to eat and drink with them according to the custom of those times to put away their sorrow How doth our Saviour labour to comfort his Disciples against his death Joh. 14.1 c. and chap. 16 and departure from them by several Arguments 3 Mat. 5.10 11 12 If the case bee Persecution Christ applies suitable comforts to his Disciples in such a condition as 1 That they are therefore blessed 2 Great shall be their reward in Heaven 3 The Prophets before them suffered the like things 4 They have cause at present to rejoyce and bee exceeding glad Peter gives sundry consolatory Arguments to the dispersed Jews ● Par. 4.12 to the end to chear and bear up their hearts against or under persecution which was the primary scope of his Epistle 1 That the end of persecution is to try them Vers 12 their faith and patience sincerity and constancy as fire doth silver and gold 2 In suffering for Christ they are partakers of Christs sufferings in way of community and conformity Vers 13 who suffered like things for confession of the truth Those that have fellowship with Christ in his sufferings Vers 13 shall have communion with Christ in glory and joy at his appearing and to eternity 4 They are happy their sufferings being both a means and a sign of their happiness Vers 14 no evils they endure can make them miserable 5 They that are reproached for the name of Christ have the communion of the Holy Ghost or the glorious spirit of God resting upon them which is glorifyed not only by them but in them Vers 14 and makes them glorious Gloria vobis contingit saith Piscator 6 Suffering in Christs cause is no strange thing but what is common and usual Vers 12 Vers 13 Vers 16 nor matter of grief nor of shame but of joy and honour to suffer as a Christian they have cause to glorifie God for that dignation that they are counted worthy to suffer for Christ and to suffer as a Christian 7 It is the will of God they should suffer Vers 1● and to bear the cross of Christ patiently and to suffer according to the will of God 8 In ●●●h sufferings they may safely commit the keeping of their fouls to God in well-doing as a faithfull Creator Vers 19 gracious redeemer and fulfiller of his promises 4 If the case bee desertion soul troubles terrours or horrours observe how Christ applies comforts to such Isa 6● 1 2 3 by the mouth of his Evangelical Prophet Isaiah The Lord hath annointed mee and sent mee to bind up the broken hearted to proclaim liberty to the Captives c. to comfort all that mourn in Sion to give them beauty for ashes the oyle of joy for mourning the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness See Isa 54.7 8. and 50.10 and 57.15 16 17 18. 5 If the case bee any other affliction or castigation Heb. 12.5 to 14 take to your selves and give to others Pauls grounds of Consolation as 1 Vers 5 All chastisements are the rods of a Father who will not forget either mercy or measure 2 Vers 6 They proceed from Gods love 3 Vers 6 7 8 They are signs and pledges of Adoption that we are Sons not Bastards 4 Vers 9 Submission to chastisement is the way to life and salvation Act. 14.22 5 Gods end therein is your profit

and satisfaction 1 Life for God hath intaild the promise of living long and seeing good dayes upon the refrayning of the Tongue from evil 1 Per. 3.10 and of the lips from guile Death and Life are in the power of the Tongue saith Solomon and they that love it shall eat the fruits thereof in the power that is Prov. 18.21 in the government of the Tongue 1 To save and prolong life if it be well governed 2 To condemn and shorten life if it be ill guided For though the tongue be but a little member yet it hath a great command what a great dependance is there upon a mans own tongue for life or death as there is upon the Judges tongue for passing sentence upon the prisoners of absolution or condemnation They that love life will use their tongues well and they shall eat the pleasant fruits of it They that love death let their tongues run at randome have not mastery over them and they shall eat the bitter fruits thereof As every one delights to use his tongue well or ill or as he soweth his words so he shall reap fruit good or bad 2 Salvation for as with the heart man beleeveth unto righteousness or Justification So with the mouth confession is made unto f Rom. 10.10 salvation The well using or abusing of the Tongue is effectuall either for salvation or destruction to eternity As life and death so Heaven and Hell Salvation and damnation are in the power of the Tongue scil thus far that according as men rule their tongues well or ill so they shall bee saved or damned go to Heaven or Hell Hence it is that David describes a Citizen of Zion more largely by his g Psa 15.1 2 3. tongue as that hee speaketh the truth in his heart he backbiteth not with his tongue nor doth any evil thereby to his neighbour he sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not vers 4. than by any other member of his body either foot vers 2. that hee walketh uprightly or hand that he worketh righteousness or ears that he doth not receive a reproach against his Neighbour vers 3. or eyes that a vile person is contemned therein verse 4. Tongue-properties and praises are tripple if not quadruple and the commendation of the other members but single 3 Joy for a man hath joy by the answer of his h Prov. 15.23 mouth when he hath spoken right words suitable seasonable and effectuall as was declared before The wisdome of a mans speech is the rejoycing of his heart This is our rejoycing saith Paul the testimony of our conscience within I may adde 2 Cor. 1.12 the innocency of our Tongues and the purity of our lips without 4 Satisfaction A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth saith the i Prov. 12.14 Wiseman shall eat good by it cap. 13.2 A mans belly shall bee satisfied with the fruit of his mouth and with the increase of his lips shall he bee filled Prov. 18.20 and vers 21. he shall eat the fruit scil of the tongue This satisfaction is contentfull acquiescence and comfortable composure of mind and heart upon a fourfold account 1 That God hath been with our mouthes and directed our tongues what to say 2 That God will reward as well the words of our mouthes as the works of our hands yea all the instruments of speech shall have their proper and full reward as the tongue mouth lips which some conceive the cause why Solomon so particularly and distinctly names them The good usage of the tongue to the glory of God and good of others the Lord God of Recompences will surely requite both here and hereafter 3 That we shall reap good to our selves by speaking of that which is good to others by instructing exhorting counselling and comforting others we teach excite advise and refresh our selves and may thereby grow better both in knowledge and in practice By speaking of good things to others wee imprint the same more deeply upon our own hearts and our knowledge is made more clear and our affections more warm Whereas the speaking of evil words make men worse they corrupt their own good manners 4 That wee may expect to receive good from others in way of recompence for the fruit of our mouthes and increase of our lips bestowed upon them in wholesome instructions counsels and consolations as Paul writ to the k 1 Cor. 9.11 Corinthians If we sow unto you spiritual things scil by our mouthes is it a great thing if wee shall reap your carnal things scil with our hands the mouth is a field narrow in compasse but fruitfull above measure either with good or evil with wholesome or hurtful words therefore Solomon speaketh often of the fruit of the mouth It is very commodious to sow this field with good seed and it will yeeld you your own with great advantage Ought wee not to govern our tongues well as wee desire to injoy life or salvation joy or satisfaction 2 Great is the commodity of a well ordered tongue in respect of others the benefits and advantages that redound to them thereby as we shewed before in the second Rule for regulating speech in the end thereof Especially these three 1 Communication of our minds gifts graces and experiences to others were it not for the tongue one man should not know the mind of another but bee as a vessel without vent stopt up a spring hidden in the ground or a fountain sealed words are the image and the tongue the Index of the mind Psal 66.16 wee could not tell others what God hath done for our souls nor counsel others what they should intreat God to do for their souls nor provoke others to love or to do good works if we wanted either the precious faculty of speech or the gracious government of the tongue The lips of the wise disperse knowledge saith l Prov. 15.7 Solomon how as the Sun doth beams of light and influences as a fountain doth water fire doth heat and flowers do fragrant smell and as they desperse knowledge so other gifts a spiritual blessing for all to gather up and suck in who are so wise as to know the worth thereof 2 Is Salvation both 1 Temporal our tongues may sometimes save others sooner than our hands Abigail by her tongue saved Nabals life and the wise woman of Abel by her tongue preserved the City as I shewed before 2 And eternall No member of the body can help others to Heaven so effectually and speedily as the tongue God useth and blesseth the same as an instrument of the conversion instruction edification reformation and confirmation of those that shall bee saved Rom. 10.17 Faith comes by hearing the word preached Paul by Gods blessing upon his ministerial tongue and lip-labours begat the Corinthians unto God 1 Cor. 4.15 incouraged and established the souls of the Disciples Act. 14.21 22. and licked whole the

of the Almighty that is the pricking stinging sense of Gods displeasure were within him Chap. 6.4 the poyson whereof drunk up his spirits and the terrouts of God set themselves in aray against him yet afterwards God shined upon Job graciously Job 42.4 turned his face and favour towards him and Job saw God with the seeing of the eye which imports clearer discoveries of God to him than hee had formerly and the Lord blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning Vers 12 Heman the Ezrahite who was one of the wisest men in all Israel 1 King 4.31 Psal 88. next after Solomon who is described to bee under as heavy a condition of a deserted wounded spirit as any wee read of complains as grievously in that sad Psalm of terrours and anguish as if hee was in Hell Vers 3. My soul is full of troubles and my life draweth nigh to the grave Thou hast laid mee in the lowest pit Vers 6. in darknesse in the deep as if hee was already possessed of the torments of hell Vers 7. and in the gult of despair Thy wrath lieth hard upon mee and thou hast afflicted mee with all thy waves the waves of Gods wrath beat with endlesse and violent dashings upon his soul Vers 14. Lord why castest thou off my soul why hidest thou thy face from mee I am afflicted and ready to dye Vers 15. from my youth up while I suffer thy terrours I am distracted Vers 16 thy fierce wrath goeth over mee thy terrours have cut mee off c. What a deep sense had Heman of Gods wrath and the effects thereof as 1 That it was fierce wrath 2 Overwhelming it went over him 3 Affrighting cutting killing wrath thy terrours have cut mee off 4 Surrounding wrath compassing him about like deep waters They i. e. thy wraths came about mee like water Vers 17. 5 Continuing wrath all the day yea many years even from his youth up was hee exercised with the terrours of the Lord with the fears and feeling of his wrath so that hee thought the reviving of his soul by comfort would be no less than wonders shewed to the dead a miracle of mercy and causing of the dead to arise and praise God Vers 10. Now though Heman was cast down so low yea cast off as to his sense yet not indeed for hee had support in the deeps of his distresse because he could in some measure exercise faith and prayer O Lord God of my Salvation Vers 1. I have cryed ngiht and day before thee let my prayer come before thee c. Vers 2. yea hee resolved to continue praying till God gave him an answer of peace and comfort Vers 13. Doubtlesse God compensated his delay with exuberancy of comfort David a man after Gods own heart Psal 143.4 42.11 119.25 yet even his heart was sometimes full of heaviness and desolate and his soul was disquieted and dejected within him and did cleave unto the dust Psal 38.2.3 Thine arrows saith he to God stick fast in mee and thy hand presseth mee sore There is no soundnesse in my flesh because of thine anger neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin for mine iniquities are gone over my head as an heavy burden Vers 4. they are too heavy for me I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all the day long Uers 6. I am feeble and sore broken I have roared by reason of the disquietnesse of my heart Uers 8. Yet in duetime God quickned him according to his word and made him full of joy with the light of his Countenance Jesus Christ was a perfect Anatomy of an afflicted soul as Mr. Mat. 26.38 Greenham calls him in his agony both in the garden when hee said my soul is exceeding sorrowful even unto death which made him pray thrice most fervently Luk. 22.44 to his father If it bee possible let this cup passe from mee and made him sweat great drops of blood falling down to the ground and on the crosse for his agony continued lesse or more till his death when hee cryed out being ready to breath out his last my God my God why hast thou forsaken mee when the wrath of God for our sinnes lay upon his humane soul in the weight of it the Godhead with-drawing it self for a while as to sense not to support Christs example in this case is most comfortable for an afflicted conscience you may read of such dreadful desertions storied in the lives of many who were dear to God I will relate three remarkable examples which are well collected by Mr. Bolton in his instructions for comforting afflicted consciences because this little peece may come into some hands who have not read the same in any other book Mr. Peacock a worthy servant of God when hee reckoned with himself about some smaller sinnes for these saith hee I feel now an Hell in my conscience upon other occasions as the visits and speeches of his friends hee groaned and cried out lamentably Oh mee wretch Oh mine heart is miserable Oh Oh miserable and woful the burden of my sinnes lyeth so heavy upon mee I doubt it will break my heart oh how woful and miserable is my state that thus must converse with hell-hounds But before his end hee was wonderfully recovered and raised up from his depth of spirituall misery to a height of heavenly joy and comfort as appears by his speeches I do saith hee God be praised feel such comfort from that what shall I call it Agony said one that stood by nay saith hee that is too little had I five thousand worlds I could not make satisfaction for such an issue Oh the Sea is not more full of water nor the Sunne of light than the Lord of mercy yea his mercies are ten thousand times more what great cause have I to magnify the great goodnes of God that hath humbled nay rather exalted such a wretched miscreant to an estate so glorious and stately The Lord hath honoured mee with his goodnesse The joy that I feel in my heart is incredible Mr. Glover of whom you may read in the Acts and Monuments was exercised divers years with tentations stings of Conscience unexpressible pangs of grief and buffetings of Satan Upon apprehension of some backsliding hee was so perplexed that if hee had been in the deepest pit of hell he could almost have despaired no more of his salvation which exceedingly wasted his body decayed his senses so as he could have no joy of his meat yet hee was forced to eat against his appetite to defer the time of his damnation so long as hee might conceiving he should be thrown down into hell as soon as the breath was out of his body yet afterward hee was so raised ravished and spiritualized that as Mr. Fox relates hee was like one placed in heaven already and dead

heart commonly cool and wither when the occasion of them ceaseth But true desires flowing out of the heart are sed with the lasting spring of grace in it the waters whereof shall not sail They are restlesse never quiet till they be satisfied uncessant till prevalent ever rising and rolling till they rest in the Center of obtaining They that desire Christ and grace pardon and peace c. aright are not only importunately but uncessantly greedy for them and will bee Gods Remembrancers night and day and give him no rest till hee give them their hearts desires Neither delayes nor repulses can crush or quash sincere desires Mat. 15. See this exemplified in the woman of Canaan Desires are true when they are the bias of the soul which inclines or leads it the right way scil Christ-ward Grace-ward Heaven-ward when they do as by a proper Motion carry out our souls freely and constantly after these as sparks flye upward as the stone moves downard and waters run forward Psal 119.20 My soul breaketh for the longing it hath to thy judgements at all times saith David and my soul thirsteth after thee Psal 143.6 as a thirsty land that gapes continually till God give Rain So much for the first direction for the right comforting of afflicted souls The second Direction is this Caution them against four evills to take heed 1 That they do not dishonour God in the time of their desertions and distractions by unworthy thoughts of him or hard speeches against him by murmurings at him or quarrelings with him for his assaultings of them with Terrours and anguish for his withdrawings from them of light and influences and for his far distance and long absence from them Hereupon they are apt to think and say that God is not so loving and kind tender and ready to help as his word reports him to bee The Psalmist when his spirit was overwhelmed his soul troubled and refused to bee comforted then hee began to call Gods mercy Psal 77.2 Vers 7 8. Truth and faithfulness into question will the Lord cast off for ever will hee bee favourable no more Is his mercy clean gone for ever doth his promise fail for evermore Vers 10. But hee checks himself for it I said this is mine infirmity or this doth make mee sick It should bee the chief care of Gods people what ever they suffer from God not to sin against God whatever God doth to them to think and speak only the thing that is right and to justifie God when ever they judge themselves This was Jobs comfort and commendation in his great affliction In all this did not Job sin with his lips Job 1.22 with cha 2.10 nor charge God foolishly Despair of Gods mercy is high treason against his Majesty and a flat denyall of his Deity Gods glory should bee dearer to us than our lives souls or the salvation of them and the more tender wee are of it the more will God tender the comfort of our souls and lives It was the frequent and fervent petition of a Godly man in his tentations Lord maintain honourable thoughts of thy self in mee 2 Caution that they do not destroy their own souls either 1 By denying what God hath done for them to wit the work of grace begun in their hearts his love to them his choice and calling of them saying they have no grace they are Reprobates cast-awayes whereby they bear false witnesse 1 Against themselves which is unnatural 2 Against the grace of God and against the God of grace his work in them and goodnesse to them which is most unworthy and ungratefull 2 Or by refusing what God would give to them scil grace mercy peace and joy wilfull refusal whereof is wilfull murder like cutting of the throat or stabbing to the heart yea self murder It isblood-guiltinesse yea guilt of the blood of souls yea of their own souls and should not your precious immortal souls be dearer to you than all the world labour to convince them that by such a denyall or refusall they make themselves false witnesses and murderers 3 Caution Joh. 8.44 that they do not gratifie Satan who is 1 A Lyar the Father of Lyes because there is no truth in him 2 A Murtherer sc of souls from the beginning and will be so to the end 3 An Accuser of the Brethren the children of God unto God their Father Job 1.9 as hee was of Job to God that he was an Hypocrite or hireling Doth Job fear God for naught and an accuser of God unto them as if hee was a hard Master cruel to crush poor souls under his feet and took pleasure in their destruction or at least that God doth not with them all the good or so well as hee might Thus Satan in the Serpent calumniated God to out first Parents of untruth as if the word which hee had spoken in threatning death was not true Gen. 3.4 yee shall not surely dye and of envy as if God had out of ill will forbid them that Tree or for fear lest by eating thereof they should become as wise as himself Presse and perswade poor afflicted souls to beware they do not gratifie Satan 1 By entertaining parley with him as Eve did which was the cause of her foil and fall The old Serpent being full of all subtlety will bee too hard for them It is the first game hee desires to play with troubled souls to argue the case with them about their spirituall condition to circumvent and deceive them with his wiles 2 By hearkning to his tentations and suggestions as these and the like 1 To cast off ordinances neglect duties in publick and in private which are the means of grace peace and comfort to hear read pray meditate c. as if these were needless or to no purpose and they should bee no better for them This is Satans plot to starve poor souls by cutting off provision from them or them from it This perswasion commeth not from God that calleth you but from the Devil who seeketh to subvert and devour you 2 To harbour Jealousies and evil surmisings of God or derogatory dishonourable thoughts such as Satan casts into your mind as if God was not mercifull pittifull faithfull c. These and the like suggestions are the bolts which Satan makes for disconsolate discontented souls to shoot at God or a coat of dis-honour which Satan shapes or cuts out for them to few and put upon the Lord. 3 To cast away their confidence and lay hope aside and give over seeking and waiting on God any longer and to throw themselves into a Gulf of despair This is to do the Devil a real kindness and to give their souls a fatal blow for hereby they make themselves a prey to Satan 4 To make a wrong judgement of themselves and of their condition by false Reasonings which are Satans Sophistry to conclude themselves out of the state of Grace out of