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

Zach. 5.2.4 which doth houer ouer thee Thine oathes are registred in the book of accounts when the great day of reckoning commeth they shall be set in order before thee and laid vnto thy charge Thou art reserued vnto the day of destruction Iob 21.30 Luk. 16.24 the time will come when thou shalt be miserably tormented in that flame Neither maist thou hope to escape The mocking Tong. thou mocking tongue who art tipt with flouts scoffes and skornes against thy neighbour Psal 2.4 5. he that sitteth in the heauens shall laugh at thee the Lord shal haue thee in derision he shal speak vnto thee in his wrath and vexe thee in his sore displeasure Why then dost thou iudge thy brother Rom. 14.10 Why dost thou set at nought thy brother we shall all stand before the tribunall seat of Christ Then shalt thou be depised who didst despise others Then shalt thou be a scorn to Diuels which here didst scorne thy betters And we know who hath said it and hee will be sure to performe it that both the mocking tong and the railing tong Mat. 5.22 and the wrathfull tongue is in danger of hell fire The slanderous Tongue Needs must then the slaunderous and backbiting tongue be in dreadful danger Psal 64.3 which tongue is bent like a Bow and shooteth out as Arrowes bitter words Thou wretched tongue art a very murtherer and not a single manslaier but thou killest three men as it were with one stroke Pro. 25.18 In which respect Salomon the wise calleth thee Pro. 25.18 an Arrow a maule a Sword An Arrow in respect of him that is absent whom thou woundest afar off in his good name in his goods in his friends and sometimes in his life A Maule or Hammer to knock him who receiueth thy slaunder in the head eius enimaurem dum inficis animam interficis whiles thou dost infect his eare thou dost destroy his soule casting thereinto seedes of suspicion hatred and contempt Lastly to thy selfe thou art a Sword in destroying thine owne soule by committing that sinne which is most odious vnto God for he which slaundreth his neighbour behinde his backe Leu. 19.14 committeth the same offence with him that raileth on the deafe Deut. 27.24 and is like him that smiteth his neighbour secretly both which are accursed and therefore no maruaile though this bee said to be that seuenth sin which God doth abhorre Pro. 6.19 for there is no sinne which maketh a man so like the Diuell as this doth for from slaundering and backbiting hee hath his name DIABOLOS which is a common name to him with slanderers And as the Lord doth greatly detest this sinne so hee hath threatned grieuously to punish it Psal 50.20 Psal 52.5 Ezek. 22.9 not onely the tongue offending but also the eare abetting and the place harboring and that not in this life onely but also in the life to come 1. Cor. 6.10 for if Railers shall not inherite the Kingdom of God much lesse shall slanderers In the same predicament art thou The filthy Tongue filthy Ribald tongue which like a sinke doest runne ouer with obsceane and vnseemely speech 1. Cor. 15.33 Euill words corrupt good manners Mat. 12.36 And of euery idle word which men doe speake they must giue an account at the Day of Iudgement If of euery idle word then what shall become of the tongue that speaketh wanton words scurrilous words filthy speech Better it is to haue no mouth then to haue it thus polluted better to be without a tongue A caueat for the Tongue Eph. 4.29.31 then to haue it thus defiled Wherefore the counsel of the Apostle is very profitable Let no corrupt communication proceede out of your mouth but that which is good and edifying And againe Let all bitternes and wrath and anger clamor and euill speaking bee put away Which lesson that we may the better learne let vs take a briefe notice first how we may rule our own Tongue secondly how wee may beare the wrong of anothers vnruly tongue CHAP. X. The binding of the tongue to the good behauiour with certain rules and directions for the same MAny and excellent are the Treatises which haue beene written The right gouernement and well ordering of our owne Tongues both by Philosophers and Diuines concerning the well ordering and gouernement of the tongue out of whose sauory writings I will onely gather this little handful of Directions That wee keepe our tongue in order two things are principally requisite First a good Heart Secondly a good Eare. A good Heart is necessary to a good tongue because the Heart is the fountaine of speech Pro. 4.23 Luke 6.45 Mat. 15.19 For out of the aboundance of the heart the mouth speaketh And if the Fountaine bee defiled the streames that issue therehence cannot bee cleane for Iob 14.4 who can bring a cleane thing out of that which is vncleane A good Art likewise is necessary to the keeping of a good tongue A good Art for it is a matter of no meane skill to learne the language of Canaan Esay 19.18 Hee saith Saint Iames is a perfect man that can rule his tongue Iam. 3.2 And the Wise-man saith that A word spoken in his place Pro. 25.11 is like apples of gold with pictures of siluer So that Hic labor hoc opus est This is a labourious labour an Art of Arts to rule the tongue To the better learning of which Art Rules for it two rules are to bee obserued in all our speech First Meditation before we speake secondly Moderation in speaking Meditatiō before speech is very necessary vnto our speech Meditatiō before speech for the tongue is the messenger of the heart therefore so often as wee speake without meditation the messenger runneth without his errand This Meditation in this kinde is two-fold First concerning the lawfulnesse secondly concerning the expediencie of our speech First For the lawfulnes we must premeditate whether that which wee would speake bee lawfull to be spoken Eph. 4.29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouthes Psal 34.13 Keepe thy tongue from euill and thy lips that they speake no guile Secondly For the fitnesse we must premeditate whether that which wee are about to speake be fit to be spoken in regard of time place Pro. 10.32 and person For the lip of the righteous will know what is acceptable Pro. 12.23 A wise man concealeth knowledge and he that hath knowledge spareth his words yea Pro. 17.27 euen a foole when he holdeth his peace is counted wise The next thing required in the Art of Speaking is Moderation Moderation in speech for this cause God hath giuen man but one Tongue with two Eares to teach him he should bee more ready to heare then to speake Lam. 1.19 he hath also placed