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A23734	The government of the thoughts a prefatory discourse to The government of the tongue / by the author of The whole duty of man.	Allestree, Richard, 1619-1681.; Pakington, Dorothy Coventry, Lady, d. 1679.; Fell, John, 1625-1686.; Sterne, Richard, 1596?-1683.	1694 (1694)	Wing A1131; ESTC R16378	90,774	192

Moses Face when he talked with God became so Glorious that Israel could not behold it without a Veil 2 Cor. 3.13 What then shall our Glory be when we shall be like Christ 1 Joh. 3.2 CHAP. II. Of the Faculties of the Soul THE Faculties of the Soul are the Vnderstanding Will Memory Affections and Senses Internal and External My purpose being not to enter the List with Philosophers but to direct Christians I shall not further consider these but what concerns the Practical part and right governing the thoughts of the Heart and Mind to the Service of God and our Mortification and the means of qualifying our selves for it 2. THE Heart in Scripture often taken for the principal Seat of the rational Soul imparteth any Faculty hereof The Mind is the inward act the result and product of its Reason and Discourses the Thoughts The Learned affirm the Mind is the fountain of Counsel and Soul of Life And again we understand by the Mind and live by the Soul The Mind of Man is sometimes a Sovereign to govern in Vertue and Sanctimony it self and the Body sometimes a Tyrant and indulging to Vice which like the Worm bred in the Wood destroyeth its own Original It is often misled by tumultuous Passions Lusts Vain-desires and other Perturbations of a discomposed Mind which unthron'd Reason dangerously gains an Usurpation 3. A prudent Man whose Knowledge is his Life in the light height and use thereof differing him not only from the Brutes but ignorant Men doth principally enjoy himself in his Mind and inward Man There is indeed in humane Possessions nothing great and excellent but a magnanimous and good Mind contemning External Greatness or supposed Excellencies such as Power Strength Riches Beauty Wit c. obvious to Sense in respect of that which is within apprehensible by the enlightned Understanding 4. AND certainly the All-wise God who Created the Affections ordained them to some excellent end and use in the Soul as Hand-maids to Devotion and Religion neithere would he in our Regeneration kill but correct them by moderating them where they grow extream and retrenching them into their own Channels where they over-flow their banks like over-rank Water Sources becoming muddy and choaked up with that which they fetch in from without or reducing them where they are Exorbitant 5. ALL Extreams are foolish and dangerous A Stoical Apathie is incompatible with a well-composed Mind as a violent Passion with a Prudent The dead Calm corrupteth Air and Water and violent Blasts disturb them the moderate more safely purifie but the mean is best Affections are as it is said of Caligula There is no better Servant nor worse Master they are good commanded but mischievous reigning like Fire and Water very necessary and very destructive 6. WITHOUT Love there can be no acceptable Service without Anger no Zeal without Fear no co-ercive power in the Soul without Hope no Comfort which bringeth us to a necessary Consideration of the Hearts Corruption the vanity and exorbitancy of the Thoughts and the necessity of their Regulations by some Rules of Practice CHAP. III. Of the Hearts Corruptions THE Corruptions of the Heart are as in the Primitive Age of the World Gen. 6.5 Only evil continually The Heart is the fountain of Sin and the Evangelist tells us Mat. 15.19 from thence spring evil Thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts false Witnesses Blasphemies all the Sins of Man All Iniquity is here forged as it is written Isai. 32.6 His Heart will work Iniquity hence words of falshood are conceived and uttered Isai. 59.13 Here the kingly Prophet declares is the root of War Psal. 55.21 And the Royal Preacher acknowledges it the seat of Mischief Prov. 6.18 Error Frowardness and that Obdurateness which excludeth all capacity of hearing God's Word and Judgments which should lead us to Repentance whereby we may be healed Psal. 95.10 Prov. 11.20 2. THE Heart is deceitful above all things who can know it Jer. 17.9 There lodgeth Hypocrisie Jer. 3.10 and many secret Sins like that unseen Multitude which rangeth through the Paths of the Deeps such are the dark Councels of the Heart of Man which Solomon informs us Prov. 20.5 Nor is this the Condition of some few but the secret Corruption of all natural Men nor are the Regenerate absolutely freed from these Pollutions being yet partly flesh We have St. Paul's word for it Gal. 5.17 For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh and these are contrary the one to the other so that ye cannot do the things that ye would 3. THE danger hereof fully appears that these are the Seeds of every Sin and fomenters thereof yea that which obstructeth Faith and Repentance for as the Physicians affirm if there be a fault in the first Concoction there will follow the like in the rest so it is here the Hearts Sickness is derived to the Tongue and all the Actions of Man It is a People said the Lord that do err in their Hearts and they have not known my ways Psal. 95.10 As the Eye is deceived through a false Medium So is the Mind through the cloud of false Opinion And the Wise Man tells us Prov. 24.9 That the thought of Foolishness is Sin into which they must needs run says the Psalmist Who set not their heart aright and whose Spirit is not stedfast with God Psal. 78.8 4. THE Almighty searcheth the Secrets of all Hearts and will at the Great Audit make all the Thoughts thereof manifest God requireth the Heart says Solomon Prov. 23.26 and David tells you If a Man regard Iniquity in his Heart the Lord will not hear him Psal. 66.18 and Wisdom expresses Prov. 16.5 That the Thoughts of the Wicked are an abomination to the Lord and they who have wicked Thoughts run swiftly to iniquity and Destruction is in their Paths Isai. 59.7 In the Corruption of the Heart the very fibrae and remainders of Sins reviving root Satan's venom remaineth The Hydra's ever-growing Heads which when occasions and ability so fail that the impious cannot serve the Devil in External Actions will shew its venom in their will to Sin 5. IN the next place it is a very difficult thing rightly to compose the Thoughts in respect of the Hearts unfathomed Deceitfulness and the Mind 's unlimited Agility in these depths of quick-shifting Thoughts Sin easily hideth it self External Sins in Words or Works are like the Plague of Leprosie Levit. 13.12 13. broken all abroad and covering all the Skin nearer the Cure and by so much the more easily amended or overcome by how much more evident they are not only to others but also to our selves 6. THE Sins of the Heart are harder to be cured the more secret and invisibly they are Committed The Thoughts are more securely Extravagant Negligent and Presuming by how much less they are obvious to any Pretender or Censurer without And where the Heart is smitten with some awful fear of

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE THOUGHTS A Prefatory DISCOURSE TO THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE By the AUTHOR of the The Whole Duty of Man The Lord knoweth the Thoughts of the Wise that they are vain 1 Cor. 3.20 LONDON Printed by R. Smith for Richard Cumberland at the Angel in St. Paul's Church-Yard M DC XC IV. Imprimatur Edward Cook September 15. 1693. THE PREFACE THE Government of the Thoughts was some Years since designed for the Press but not till this opportunity thought fit to make its Appearance The Tract indeed in point of Justice must own its Original Theme to that Most Excellent and Learned Author of The Whole Duty of Man and had not the Grave and Darkness deprived us of so great a Luminary this Treatise would have appeared in perfect Lustre with all those Embellishments which so Exquisite a Pen could have rendred it The main Subject Matter of this Discourse is to perswade Men to regulate their inordinate Thoughts and Affections that such an unruly Member as St. James affirms the Tongue to be may not break out into that Conflagration as all their Reason cannot easily quench For out of the Heart proceeds all Evil Thoughts the product of bad Actions which are concomitant to contumelious Speeches And indeed I presume we cannot place too strong a Guard on that which appears so formidable an Enemy and threatens us with so much Violence which if not speedily prevented may in the end prove Destructive I cannot reasonably expect that this Product of my Labors should find a candid Acceptance of all Persons or like the Manna accomodate every Palate especially in this Censorious Age wherein some approve of nothing but the Minerva of their own Brain I wish I could not say many like those foolish Heathens Adore their own Maladies applauding themselves for Benevolent and Prudent by disgusting all that 's good and wholsome which is indeed a Symptom of a disaffected Palate I am not ignorant that a Speaker ventureth within the reach of Censure and that a Writer fixes himself to the Stake Yet in hope that some may reap benefit by my Labours I resolve not to be discouraged if any shall prove so malign as to render Evil to my good Intentions my Labour is with that Omnipotency who appointed some cheap Sacrifices that the Poor might serve him as well as the Rich and requiring principally willing Hearts Exod. 35.6 7 c. And he that possess'd not Jewels Gold Silver Silk Purple or of the like Estimation might produce Skins and Goats-hair which were of inconsiderable Value but proved Acceptable You who enjoy a greater share of Heavenly Treasures offer of your Fulness for the Almighty accepteth the poor Widows Mites where no more is Expected And now let us hasten to enter into that sacred way of Charity which directeth to Salvation and persevere in that Truth which never Deceiveth nor is Deceived so that at the last we may enter into the Kingdom of Glory To conclude I shall only add what St. Paul said upon his departure to the Elders of Miletum Acts 20.32 And now Brethren I commend you to God and to the Word of his Grace which is able to build you up and to give you an Inheritance among all them which are Sanctified Read Happily and Practise Diligently not omitting St. Paul's Instructions to Timothy in his Second Epistle 2 Chap. ver 2. Consider what I say and the Lord give you Understanding in all things THE Government of the Thoughts CHAP. I. Of the Chief Governor the Soul THERE are diversity of Things of whose Being we know whose Quality we know not All confess we enjoy a Soul which Commandeth and Restraineth in us What a one it is none can tell Hence are those many Disputes concerning its Essence Seat and Subject with the subordinate Faculties of it No Person hath throughly been acquainted with this secret Governor in Man Some Philosophers have defined it a Harmony Some a Divine Vertue a Particle of the Deity Some the most exile and slender Air Some a Blood Some Heat or Fire Some Number So innate is Error that we most Err concerning our own selves 2. MORE judiciously do they define it who attest it an Immortal Spirit an Incorporeal Substance Created by Infusion and Infused in its Creaation made to the Image of the Creator capable of the light of Understanding Wisdom Holiness Blessedness and Eternity So that in its conjunction with the Body it Animateth giveth Life Action and Motion wherein it differeth from an Angel and in its separation from the Body for a time untill it shall be re-united at the Resurrection it Subsisteth as the Angels and hath its proper Acts and Apprehensions as they have Now as the Eye beholds the Eye in a Glass so the Soul discerneth it self by a kind of Reflex 3. THE Soul is a divine Ghost sent from Heaven into these Tabernacles of Clay to give them Life and govern them yet is it neither visible coming nor departing It is an Immortal Form of Mortality The Body Decayeth the Soul doth not being neither subject to Time nor Age The Motions thereof are Eternal it apprehendeth things Present Absent Past and Future it Deliberateth Formeth Directeth Discourseth Judgeth Doubteth Concludeth So excellent it is that Cicero the Orator said God hath not given any thing so Divine to Man and that there are certain Lineaments thereof more beautiful than of the Body 4. THE Body is adorned by the Soul without which Beauty it self appears Gastly And good Abraham said Give me a possession of a Burying-place that I may Bury my Dead out of my sight Gen. 23.4 The Soul cannot be Deformed by any unevenness discomposure or disproportion of the Body which it Animateth As a beautiful Creature is the same in a poor Cottage as in a magnificent Palace So is Vertue which is the Beauty of the Soul Could we but behold the Soul of a Saint there 's no Embellishment on Earth so Glorious no Created Beauty here of so divine a Lustre 5. THE Soul tho now enclosed in Obscurity having only some diviner Breathings in the Raptures and Heavenly Contemplations which sometimes allarum it up like Moses to the Mount or like a Jacob's Ladder ascendeth it into God's Presence hath some knowledge of its Original by Faith and Joy unspeakable in the apprehension thereof 1 Pet. 1.8 which arresteth the Desire as appeared in St. Peter seeing Christ's Transfiguration Matt. 17. and St. Paul's wishing to be Dissolved was a signal Evidence of our interest in Heaven therefore our Pusilanimity cannot deter us from it Phil. 1. 6. HE knoweth whether he shall go who remembreth whence he came But what shall be the transcendent Beauty of a Devout Soul in its Separation when it shall be restored to its native Heaven when it shall be all Illumination and God shall be all in all Christ's Raiment on the Mount became shining white as Snow so as no Fuller on Earth could white them Mark 9.3 And