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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

in this world both in word and meditation and he led a life altogether celestial This also you may read in the narration of the holy life and Christian death of Mistris Katherine Bretergh The sorrows of Hell seized upon her soul before her death she said a roaring wilderness of woe was within her that her sins had made her a prey to Satan and wished she had never been born or that shee had been made any other Creature rather than a woman shee burst out many times saying woe woe woe c. a weak a woefull a wretched and forsaken woman with tears continually trickling from her eyes But afterwards God came to her with fulness of joy and abundance of Consolations and put triumphant songs into her mouth as oh Blessed bee thy Name my Lord and my God the joys that I feel in my soul O they be wonderfull as certain as thou art the God of truth even so sure do I know my self to bee thine O blessed bee the Lord that hath thus comforted mee and brought mee now to a place more sweet to mee than the garden of Eden Oh the joy the joy the delightsome joy that I feel Lay your sorrows in the ballance of sound judgement with theirs and see whether theirs or yours bee heavier Are you better than all or any of these holy servants of God that you should think your selves exempt from the like soul-troubles can these be a sign of Gods rejecting wrath to you which befell these that were the objects of Gods speciall love Yea is not this your conformity to Christ in agonies or inward distresses of spirit which you may expect as well as in outward Tribulations Phil. 3.10 and to know the fellowship of his sufferings in both Object Such may further say God himself hath hewed and wounded us who then can heal us yea slain us or taken the life of Comfort or the Comfort of our lives from us who can quicken us hee hath hid his face from us and laid us in darknesse how can wee then behold him no more than wee can see the Sun by Candle-light God hath forsaken us departed from us cast us off wee fear hee will never come to us nor own us again Hee hath caused trouble and grief to our souls who then can give us peace and joy The Seventh ground of Consolation Set before them and apply to them Gods promises of healing quickning illightening and of returns of peace and joy to such Gods 1 Promises of healing Deut. 32.39 Psa 147.3 Job 5.18 Luk. 4 18. Isa 57.19 1 Pet. 2.24 to wounded spirits and broken hearts I wound and I heal saith God Hee healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds or griefs He hath sent mee saith Christ to heal the broken hearted By his stripes yee are healed God hath the oyl of gladnesse to pour into the wounds of your souls which is the most soveraign balsome for healing and closing up the same Hos 6.1 far more precious than all the balm in Gilead Come say the repenting people of God one to another who give no place to despair and let us return to the Lord for hee hath torn us hee will heal us hee hath smitten and hee will bind us up 2 Promises of quickning made to dead souls buried in the graves of desertion and low languishments Deut. 32.39 to revive and raise them up I kill and make alive saith the Lord The Lord bringeth down to the grave 1 Sam. 2.6 7. and bringeth up saith Hannah out of the deeps of spirituall misery as well as of externall captivity and tribulation we may conceive the one to bee involved in the other Ezech. 37. v. 11 When the house of Israel said in Babylon Behold our bones are dried or wee are in Babylon like dry bones in a grave or scattered at the graves mouth our hope is lost wee are cut off for our parts therefore prophesie unto them Ver. 12. Thus saith the Lord God Behold O my people I will open your graves and cause you to come out of your graves and bring you into the Land of Israel and yee shall know that I am the Lord Vers 13. and I shall put my spirit in you and yee shall live Vers 14. then shall yee know that I have spoken and performed it saith the Lord. All those promises of giving his Spirit are promises of life and comfort to dead-spirited sad-hearted sinners Joh. 6.63 because the Spirit is the Comforter and it is the Spirit that quickeneth To this end God dwels in broken hearts and in contrite spirits as his Heaven upon Earth to quicken and comfort them Isa 57.15 I dwell saith the high and lofty one that inhabiteth eternity in the high and holy place with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive the spirit of the humble and to revive the hearts of the contrite ones Hos 6.1 2. This was the confidence of Gods people in Hosea After two dayes will he revive us in the third day hee will raise us up and wee shall live in his sight that is after a short time of our troubles hee will so restore and chear us as if hee had given us a new life Psal 71.20 and of David Thou which hast shewed mee great and sore troubles shall quicken mee again and shalt bring mee up again from the depths of the earth from gulfs of grief and distresse and in Psalm 138.7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble thou wilt revive mee 3 Promises of illightening made to benighted souls that walk in darknesse and see no light 1 By causing his face to shine upon them after hee hath hid it from them on whom hee hath turned his back Isa 54.8 In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee saith the Lord thy Redeemer mark how God opposeth the perpetuity of his kindness to the momentaniness of his displeasure 2 By making Christ Jesus his sun of Righteousnesse to arise with healing under his wings and great joy to them on whom hee hath seemed to set to their great sorrow who have gone mourning without the Sun Compare those two texts together Isa 50.10 who is among you that feareth the Lord that walketh in darkness and hath no light Mal. 4.2 let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God And Unto you that fear my Name shall the Sun of Righteousnesse arise with healing under his wings Christ will send forth such Beams of heat light and life into dead dark cold hearts as will make them lightsome joyfull growthfull fruitfull thankfull This was the Churches confidence when I fall Micah 7.8 I shall arise when I sit in darknesse the Lord shall bee a light unto mee 4 Promises of returns to the souls of his servants after his departure from them