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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

more sinnes in one word you heard before in the multitude of words there wants no sinne That saying hath I beleeve a truth in it A mans most and worst sinnes are his words 1 His most sinnes because the Tongue formeth and increaseth iniquity more than any other member of the body 2 His worst sinnes as blasphemies against God especially against the Holy Ghost the sinne of which man cannot repent and which God will not forgive The lip of Truth hath spoken it whosoever speaketh against the Holy Ghost it shall not bee forgiven him noither in this world nor in the world to come Math. 12.31 32. The Holy Ghost describes the sinne of the Tongue in a greater circumference or compasse than the sinnes of any other part of the body James saith the Tongue is not a Hill or Mountain not a Town City or Countrey but a world of Iniquity Chap. 3.6 Paul anatomizing the natural man from head to foot in Rom. 3.9 to 19. and declaring how all men naturally are subject in all parts of them to all sinnes discovers more evils in the Organs of Speech than in any other member of the body There is a grave in the throat to bury others in quick guile in the Tongue poyson in the Lips gall or bitternesse in the mouth The sinnes of the Tongue have an universal influence not onely upon all the members of the body as was shewed before to pervert pollute yea poyson them all but over all callings conditions relations in which a man stands The tongues of Tradesmenly for gain though Treasures gotten thereby are but vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death Prov. 21.6 Of States-men drives on their design and self-interest Of Church-men preach their own parts conceits ends not Christ his truth and glory The sinnes of other members decay with age but the sinnes of the Tongue continue if they do not encrease even in old age as swearing cursing frowardnesse bitternesse in the speeches of aged men and women The sins of the mouth leave both a stain and a sting in the soul Therefore perverseness in the Tongue is a breach in the spirit saith m Prov. 15.4 Solomon Is it needfull for us to keep our mouthes from evil so is it to guide our Tongues well Both are equally necessary the one as the end the other as the means The restraint of the Tongue will keep a world of sin out of the mouth and abundance of sin out of the World 2 To prevent the evil of misery both 1 Here and 2 Hereafter 1 To prevent the evil of miseryhere as 1 Gods anger 2 Hatred 3 Opposition 4 Separation 1 Gods anger at our words Why should God bee angry at thy voice saith the n Eccles 5.6 Preacher that is when thou speakest rashly and unadvisedly Gods wrath was kindled against Eliphaz and his two friends for saith he yee have not spoken of mee the thing that is right as my Servant Job o Job 42.7 Ver. 8. hath that is So truly and rightly of his providential proceedings Therefore God prescribed them a course to make their peace with him scil to provide a great sacrifice and bring it to Job to offer and to pray for them lest I deal with you saith God after your folly or punish your foolishnesse in that yee have not spoken of mee the thing that is right Gods repetition hereof implies an aggravation of the fault and an inflammation of his anger against them for it Gods anger was kindled against Aaron and Miriam for speaking against Moses Numb 12.1.9 2 Gods hatred of our Tongues and lips for a lying Tongue is one of the six or seven things which the Lord hates and are an abomination to his p Prov 6.16 17 12.22.23 soul 3 Gods opposition to our persons or setting himself against us as an enemy for the abuse of our Tongues as hee did against the Prophets r Jer. 23.31 Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that use their Tongues or that smooth their Tongues who speak placentia pleasing and plausible things to sooth up the people in their sins and perswade them it is the word of the Lord they deliver when it is nothing but their own fancies 4 A separation between us and our God which is made by Tongue-sins as well as by s Isa 59 2.3 hand-sins your iniquities saith the Prophet have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that hee will not hear what sins 1 The sins of the Hands and Fingers 2 Of the Lips and Tongue for your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lyes your Tongue hath uttered perverseness How needfull it is to govern our Mouths well that our words may not be the object of his anger nor our Tongues of his hatred that God may not estrange himself hide his face from us as not a friend to us nor set himself against us as an Enemy It were better for us to have all the World against us than God To keep our mouthes with al diligence is a means to keep our selves in the love and favour of God in neerness to and fellowship with God 2 To prevent Gods Judgements denounced against an evil Tongue or against man for the evils of his Tongue or evils executed upon that account as the Tongue of frowardness shall bee out out Prov. 10.31 like a bad branch that brings forth ill fruit God will cut off all flattering lips saith t Psa 12.3 David and the Tongue that speaketh proud or great things King Nebuchadnezzer for speaking proud u Dan. 4.30 Vers 31. words Is not this great Babylon that I have built c. while the word was in his mouth there fell a voice from Heaven like thunder as one saith with a bolt in it that he should be dis-throaned or unking'd yea unman'd and cast out of the society of men to live as a Beast Vers 32 33. and eat grasse among the Beasts of the field for seven years before his Reason returned to him A high and heavy punishment inflicted by God on a mighty Monarch for a proud speech the sin of his mouth for which hee was even taken in his vv Psal 59.12 pride scil as a bird in a snare God shut Moses out of temporal Canaan for speaking unadvisedly with his lips though hee much desired to go over and see that good land beyond Jordan Deut. 3.25 26. The sins of mens mouths prove the snares of their souls The wicked is snared by the transgression of his lips saith x Pro. 12.13 Solomon that is his Tongue brings himself into trouble A fools mouth is neer destruction how neer scil at pits brink ready to drop in Prov. 10.14 yea a fools mouth is his destruction and his lips are the snare of his soul Prov. 18.7 Hee that keepeth his mouth keepeth his life but hee

wee spoken so much against thee 2 From man as 1 From Superiours 〈…〉 10. 〈…〉 21. either Magistrates or Ministers Israel hated him that reproved in the Gate that is both the Prophets who reproved in the open Assemblies as in the Gates of the Temples Jer. 7.2 and in other places of publick resort and the Magistrates who reproved in the place of Judgement or in the Gates of the Cities John Baptists Reproof of Herod the King for keeping his Brother Philips wife was hatefull to him and it seems hee was willing to put him to death before Herodias provoked him to it Mat. 14.3 4 5. Luk. 3.19 It cost him his liberty for hee was imprisoned and his life for hee was beheaded 2 Much lesse can men bear Reproof from Equals and Inferiours The Sodomites rejected Lots fair and friendly Reproof and offered violence to him They pressed sore upon him and came near to break the door Gen. 19.9 Hence when wee reprove others they will retort it upon us and recriminate or seek occasion to reprove or reproach us or if they have known any thing amiss in us though twenty years ago which God and man have pardoned and is healed they will revive it to our disgrace or tell us in the generall that we have faults as well as they as the Pharisees said to the blind man Thou wast altogether born in sin and dost thou reprove us Joh. 9.34 and they cast him out and wee are apt to do the like to others when they reprove us Now consider the causes of our backwardnesse to bear reproof which are great Impediments of our taking it well Especially four 1 Prejudicate opinions harboured in our bosomes of those that reprove us as 1 That they are proud and usurp authority over us as our Judges or Lords and would seem better and holier than wee as Korah and his company said to Moses and Aaron the Reprovers of Israel yee take too much upon you Numb 16.3 seeing all the Congregation are holy and the Lord is among them As the Sodomites said to Lot Gen. 19 9. This one fellow came in to sojourn and hee will needs bee a judge When Moses midly admonished the Hebrew that smote his fellow he said who made thee a Prince Exod. 2.13.14 and a Judge over us intendest thou to kill mee as thou killedst that Egyptian When the Prophet reproved Amaziah King of Judah for his Idolatry presently the King reproved the Prophet with a scoff Art thou made of the Kings Counsell forbear why shouldest thou bee smitten q. d. wilt thou meddle with state affairs 2 Chron. 25.26 2 Or that they hate us and tell us of our faults out of malice or ill-will to cast disgrace upon us We are apt to count Reprovers our enemies as Ahab did Elijah 1 King 21.20 Hast thou found mee O mine enemy and the Galathians did Paul for reproving their backsliding Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the Truth Gal. 4.16 These Jealousies and prejudices should bee plucked up by the roots else they will imbitter Reproofs to us though they bee milde and sweet and they will imbitter our spirits against our Reprovers though they bee loving and faithfull to us The second Cause is Pride of heart self-love and self conceit that wee think our selves as good as others not inferiour whereas the reproved is some way under the Reprover and therefore we take it ill to be told of our faults Wee would have a Noli me tangere written upon us that none may come neer us to touch us with a Reproof Man is a cross Creature and cannot abide to be checked or controlled The Third Cause is too much love or liking of sin especially a Delilah or loathness to part with it as with a right eye or to have it touched The fourth is unwillingness to bear shame and grief for sin that makes us unwilling to bear Reproof for sin The removing of these Impediments will make way for receiving admonition with much fruit and comfort 2 Consider the right manner of bearing Reproof for the modality of an act hath a great Influence into the Efficacy and success thereof To take Reproof well will make it work well as Physick doth But to take Reproof wrong is like the taking of a dagger or knife by the wrong end scil by the point or edge and not by the heft then it may do us more hurt than good We should receive Reproof 2 King 5.13 14. 1 Humbly even condescend and stoop low to take an Admonition even from an inferiour or mean person Iob 31.13 1 Sam. 25.32 33. as Naaman did from his Servants and Job from his David from Abigail 2 Thankfully and affectionately as David did hee took Reproof as a kindnesse bless God and thank him for it Bid it welcome to our ears and hearts Wee should receive Reproof as sick folks do Physick with earnest desire it may work well with us to cure our Spirituall diseases and procure our souls health Receive Reprovers as the Angels of God as our soul-friends who should bee dear to us above all 3 Effectually to make use of Admonition for the emendation of our wayes and doings that wee may not need to be twice told of Heb. 13.22 or reproved for one fault 4 Patiently I beseech you Brethren suffer the word of Exhortation and Admonition bear it patiently and wear it as a Jewel in your ear by reforming and conforming your selves thereunto Reproof seems a burden therefore we have need of patience to bear it Hee that heaneth Reproof possesseth his heart Luk. 21.19 saith Solomon Pro. 15.32 that is in or through patience 3 The means of taking Reproof well are three which wee should labour for 1 A wise heart to understand the nature and end the use and benefit of reproof that it is an effect of mercy and means of grace and of much good from God to us an argument and expression of love and faithfulnesse from man to us 2 An obedient ear Prov. 25.12 to hearken to reproof as Gods ordinance to receive Admonition and Instruction as to what God speaks to us by them that reprove us 3 A tractable spirit to comply with a reproof as soft wax with the seal to receive a full and deep impression of it to apply it close as a plaister to the sore to heal our manners to yeeld our selves freely to it as mettal heated to the hammer or melted to the mould to bee new wrought or new cast to submit to a rod of Admonition as meekly as a child doth to a rod of correction to bee drawn from evil to good from vice to vertue as effectually by a coard of reprehension as wee can bee forcibly by a cable of compulsion To give up our selves as servants to Admonition to obey it is the way to become Masters over our selves to have rule over our own spirits and to command our corruptions 4 Is

that with mee there should be yea Vers 18 19 yea and nay nay Our word toward you was not Yea and Nay but in him was yea Paul was stedfast and constant in his words with him there was nor yea and nay concerning the same thing but his speech of it was ever the same His Yea was alwaies yea and his Nay nay Not yea at one time and nay at another The Jews have a Proverb The Just mans yea is yea and his nay nay not now yea and anon nay as theirs is who are light and inconstant in their speech and spirits who will change their minds and turn their Tongues on a sudden and affirm and deny with a breath A false witnesse shall perish Prov. 21.28 saith Solomon but the man that heareth speaketh constantly The true witnesse that speaks no more than hee heareth his testimony is ever the same hee varieth not in it So Paul was alwaies in the same story in his Apologies viz. to the Chief-Captain to Felix Tit. 3.8 to Festus and to Agrippa These things saith hee to Titus I will that thou affirm constantly Christians should be stedfast and immoveable as in their works so in their words Fourthly IV Season Eccle. 3.7 Have respect to the season when you speak For there is a time to keep silence and a time to speak I will shew you some special-seasons of both I. The seasons of silence 1 When wee are afflicted by God This is Silence from murmuring When Nadab and Abihu were burnt by fire from the Lord then Aaron their Father held his peace Lev. 10.3 I was dumb Psal 39.9 saith David when Gods hand was heavy upon him and opened not my mouth because thou didst it The yoak of affliction must be born with silence e Lam. 3.27 28 God puts us to silence when hee gives us the waters of gall to f Jer. 8.14 drink 2. When wee are injured by men This is silence from reviling or revenge It s probable Moses held his peace Numb 12.1 to 10 and put up the wrong when Aaron and Miriam spake against him therefore the Lord spake for him and reproved them When Davids enemies spake mischievous things against him c. But I saith he as a deaf man heard not I was as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth g Psal 38.12 13 14. Our Saviour was brought as a Lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before the Shearers is dumb so hee opened not his mouth h Isa 53.7 when hee was reviled hee reviled not again i 1 Pet. 2.23 Answer not a Fool according to his Folly saith the wiseman k Prov. 26.4 that is do not rage revile or speak idlely as he doth lest thou bee like or equal unto him For the answer a man giveth another is the picture or measure of himself A foolish answer sheweth a foolish man The best answer to a fool in such a case is silence 3 When the times are perilous and men watch for iniquity Isa 29.20 21 and make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the Gate that is in publick both for Magistrate and Minister to bring them into trouble for their slips and failings in speech or by wresting and misconstruing their words When what we speak is like to prove a snare to us This silence is forbearance to speak at least out or broad except we be called thereto The prudent shall keep silence in that time Amos. 5.12 13. for it is an evil time Then hee that keeps his Tongue keeps his life Micah's counsell seemes to refer to such times wherein men are like briars and thorns catching at others words scratching and pricking them Mic●h 7.4 if they get hold or advantage against them Then trust yee not in a friend Vers 7. put yee not confidence in a guide keep the door of thy mouth from her that lyeth in thy bosome When others watch for our words to pick out of them matter against us or ask us tempting ensnaring questions silence may bee in season for us In this case our Saviour was sometimes silent and gave no answer as when hee was accused before the High-Priest and Pilate Mar. 15.3 4 5. 14.60.61 and they earnestly provoked him to speak for himself yet he would say nothing which made them wonder 4 When the wicked are before us who will scoffe and scorn and reject what we say and wee have no hope of doing them good thereby but fear they will bee worse This silence is a forbearance to instruct reprove or relate our condition before such I will keep my mouth as with a bridle saith David l Psal 39.1 while the wicked is before mee that is I will be silent and not speak of my calamity before them lest they rejoyce at it and reproach mee for it To reprove and admonish obstinate sinners who will prophane but never profit by holy things is to cast pearles before swine who will trample them under their feet and turn again and rend you and to cast holy things to Dogs who will knarle at them and bark and bite you for them 2 King 18.36 King Hezekiah commanded his people to be silent and not to answer a word to Rabshekah's flatteries or blasphemies Christ notwithstanding his ability of speech and the efficacy of his words in the presence of wicked men kept silence from good words Herod questioned with him in many words Luk. 23.9 but Christ answered him nothing He had no hope of doing him any good and he would not satisfie his curiosity Upon this account wee are forbidden to reprove a scorner because he will hate us and bee never the better m Prov 9.7 8. or to speak in the ears of a fool that is wilfull and obstinate for he will bee no wiser but despise the wisdome of our words n Prov. 23.9 This is to offer light to the blind or speech to the deaf Ephraim is joyned to Idols saith God let him alone o Hos 4.17 do not speak to him it will do him no good 5 When wee are angry and our spirits are distempered Passion is no season for speech as appears in Moses Jonah and others Passion as one saith is a bad counsellor and as ill a speaker Oh! that we were so much Masters over our Tongues as not to speak when wee are angry For wee are prone at such a time to speak rashly and unadvisedly to speake over to say unto our Brother Racha or Thou Fool both which Gods Law as Christ expounds it prohibits p Mat. 5.22 A Christian should have a calm of meeknesse upon his heart when hee hath a storm of reproof in his mouth Let mee adde It is a season to keep silence when the persons to bee spoken to are in a distemper of heart or head through passion distraction or drunkennesse Abigail told Nabal nothing

do good to others The Tongue is an usefull instrument 1 For Healing Prov. 12.18 the tongue of the wise is health 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Signifieth a medicine or healing So it is rendred in Prov. 4.22 A wise godly man hath an Apothecaries shop in his mouth and healing Medicines therein of all sorts for the cure of all kinds of distempers and diseases in the Spirits speeches and carriage of others And the time of speaking is a time of healing like Spring and Fall to give physick in A holy Tongue hath a healing property to lick the sores of others whole It hath in it the Balm of Gilead to heal wounds and the Oyl of gladness to ease pains A wholesome Tongue or the healing of the tongue is a Tree of life Prov. 15.4 saith Solomon it cureth blindnesse by instruction Corruption by Reprehension and Sadnesse by Consolation Hardness by Lenitive and deadnesse by Corrasive arguments A charitable Tongue is medicinable to lick others whole who have been lashed sore with Scorpion Tongues 2 For Feeding The lips of the Righteous feed many saith Solomon b Prov. 10.21 Christians should have meat in their mouths to feed others with wholesome counsel comfort and the like as Doves do one another Thy lips O my Spouse drop as the hony-comb saith Christ c Cant. 4.11 hony and milk are under thy Tongue These two were the blessings of Canaan and are the fruits of a godly mans mouth to feed others with both for nourishment and delight His lips are full of Hospitality or a free Table furnished with the dainties of heavenly grace-ministring Soul-nourishing words A godly man hath a Dole of grace at the door of his mouth as well as of Alms at the door of his house It s bad and sad beyond expression to abuse the Tongue or not to use it to good ends and purposes To propound a good end in all wee speak is a means to order our words aright to attain the same and to put our Tongues alwayes to good use As to consider the end of our actions is the way not to do amiss The Third Rule Commit your Tongues as well as your heads or hearts into Gods hands 3 Rule to guide them aright and to keep them from evil Reas Because God is the Tongues maker as hee said to Moses f Exod. 4.11 who hath made mans mouth or who maketh the dumb or deaf c have not I the Lord and the Tongues Master to 1 Command it 2 Guide it 3 Keep it 4 Purge it 5 Prosper it 1 God is Lord over the Tongue to command it to speak or to keep silence His Law binds our Tongues as well as our hands to obedience and wee must yeeld subjection to God in the one as well as in the other Our lips are not our own to use as wee list Psal 12.4 but they are Gods who is Lord over us God keeps the key of mans mouth and his hand openeth and shutteth it at his pleasure as he did Ezekiels mouth cap. 3 26 27. and cap. 33.22 and Daniels mouth cap. 10 15 16. Luk. 1.20 Thus God shut Zacharias his mouth for his unbeleef and opened it again vers 64. If God open the mouth none can shut it as hee did the mouths of his Prophets Nations and kingdomes could not stop them and of Christs Apostles neither Imprisonment nor the Councils command of silence could make them hold their peace wee cannot but speak said Peter and John the things which wee have seen and heard g Act. 4.20 And if hee shut it none can open it Ezekiel Daniel Zacharias were all dumb till God pleased to open their mouths God can open and shut the mouths of Beasts at his pleasure The Lord opened the mouth of the Ass to reprove her master Balaam h Numb 22.28 30. 2 Pet. 2.16 The dumb Ass spoke with mans voice God shut the Dogs mouths in Egypt to one moved his Tongue against any of the Children of israel against man or beast i Exod. 11.7 Din. 6.22 God shut the Lions mouths that they should not hurt Daniel God can put a muzzle on mens mouths and tye up or restrain their Tongues when hee pleaseth as hee did Labans from speaking to Jacob either good or bad k Gen. 31.24 and the Canaanites none of them moved his Tongue against any of the Children of Israel l Josh 10.21 God can heal all Tongue-infirmities and impediments of speech as Christ opened the ears and loosed the Tongue of him that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech and hee spake plain m Mar. 7.33 34 35. Isa 35.6 32.4 God can make the Tongue of the dumb to sing and the Tongue of the Stammerers ready to speak plainly or elegantly Pray the Lord to keep the key of your mouthes ever in his own hand to open them when hee would have you to speak and to shut them when he would have you to keep silence Pray with David n Psal 51.15 O Lord open thou my lips and my mouth shall shew forth thy praise to wit upon all occasions and heal Lord what is amiss in my mouth 2 God is Lord over the Tongue to guide it what to speak and how and when That was a sweet and gracious promise of God to Moses when Moses made excuses to wave the service of God imposed on him Exod. 4.10 O my Lord I am not eloquent or a man of words but I am slow of speech and of a slow Tongue God said unto him Now therefore go and I will bee thy mouth and teach thee what thou shalt say Vers 12. God can put what words hee will into mens mouths and make them speak not what they will but what he pleaseth and some time contrary to what they intend Thus God made Balaam to blesse Israel when hee came to curse them and he could do no other as hee told o Numb 22.38 and 35. Balak Loe I am come unto thee have I now any power at all to say any thing the word that God putteth in my mouth that shall I speak If Balak would give mee his house full of silver and gold I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God Numb 22.18 Chap. 24.13 to do lesse or more but what the Lord saith that will I speak God is the Author and Doner 1 Of Tongue-gifts and lip-learning The Lord hath given me the Tongue of the learned saith p Isay 50.4 Isaiah 2 Of conceptions and of utterance God enriched the Corinthians in all utterance and in all knowledge q 1 Cor. 1.5 of right answers both root and branch The preparations of the Heart in man and the answer of the Tongue Prov. 16.1 is from the Lord. A man cannot prepare or dispose his heart to speak nor speak what hee hath prepared without Gods assistance This may comfort us against our ignorance that wee may know what