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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

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

and godly sorrow for them and resolution against them for future to give satisfaction to the Church that God hath wrought a converting or regenerating change in them As those whom John baptized in Jordan and received into the Church of the Gospel confessed their b Mat. 3.6 sins The converts at Ephesus that beleeved through Pauls Doctrin came and confessed and ●●ewed their d Act. 19.18 20. deeds with detestation and burnt their Conjuring books which amounted to a great value Vers 19. openly renouncing their former life and course 2 After admission to ordinances and fellowship in the ●hurch of Christ those that give offence by walking e 2 Thes 3.6 disorderly whether to the whole Church or but to some particular members of it they ought to confesse their faults to the whole society or to the persons in it to whom the same is known to testifie their repentance and thereby the truth of Grace in them that those who know their sin may know their sorrow also and 1 If the offence be publick by their confession to preserve the credit of the society and roll away reproach and infamy from it that it may not bee accounted an ulcerous body a leprous company nor a cage of unclean birds and to give warning and an alarm to others that hear it to fear lest they offend 2 If the offending Brother be cast out or the Brethren withdraw from him they may receive satisfaction by the free ingenuous and hearty confession of his offence and receive him to fellowship and renew their love and favour towards him as Paul intreated the Church at Corinth to do to the incestuous person upon the same f 2 Cor. 2.6 7 8. account ye ought to forgive him and to comfort him lest he should bee swallowed up with over much sorrow Wherefore I beseech you that you would confirm your love towards him 2 Is Injuries which ye have done to others Injuries ye should willingly acknowledge and be sorry for the same For Confession in this case is a kind of satisfaction and a means of pacification Christ directs us to do thus If thou bring thy gift to the Altar and there remembrest thy Brother hath ought against g Mat. 5.23 24. thee leave thy gift there and go thy way first be reconciled to thy Brother then come and offer thy gift God will accept no service at your hands till yee have confessed to your Brethren the wrongs you have done them Again in Luk. 17.34 If thy Brother trespasse against thee rebuke him and if he repent forgive him and if he trespasse against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee saying I repent thou shalt forgive him Even wicked Saul confessed to David the wrong he had done him in persecuting him without h 1 Sam. 24.17 18 19. Scruple cause 3 Case is Scruple about a sin that stings or burtheneth your consciences as whether you have committed it how many are perplexed with doubts and fears concerning the sin against the Holy Ghost or are not some way accessary to it or whether your sin is pardonable or a sin unto death or how may you obtain pardon and assurance thereof and how your consciences may bee quieted and comforted Let mee joyn herewith Predominancy of sin the case of the predominancy of a lust which assaults and afflicts you with the vigorous stirrings of it and is too hard and masterfull for you In both these cases you may disburthen your souls into the bolome of some wise godly friends and acquaint them with your scruples what sins you fear you have committed and with your unruly corruptions what sins you are strongly tempted to commit to obtain the benefit of their counsels and of their prayers how to get sin pardoned to you and subdued in you ease to your consciences and rest to your souls The more free you are to unbosome your selves and lay open your soul-cases to others the more forward will they be to pity you advise you and pray for you that you may be healed of your soul-sores and consciencewounds which by concealing may grow incurable How can the Physician apply healing medicines if the patient do not discover his disease Oftentimes the very opening of mens grievances easeth the conscience saith a reverend Divine as the opening of a vein cooles the blood Dr. Sibs But it is neither wisdome nor mercy to put men upon the rack of Confession further than they can have no ease any other way The Fourth Case is a common Judgement or a particular affliction 1 A common Judgement when a man hath had a speciall hand in pulling down the same a common Judgement and is detected by the providence of God he ought to confesse his sin that procured it not only before God but before men also who suffer with him and for his sake to clear the Justice of Gods proceedings The Israelites were smitten at Ai and could not stand before their enemies for Achans sin in plundering the wedge of gold Josh 7. and Babylonish Garment For the removal of Gods wrath and Judgement from Israel Joshua said to Achan Vers 19. my Son give I pray thee glory to the Lord God of Israel and make confession unto him and tell mee now what thou hast done hide it not from me Observe 1 That Joshua required Achan to confesse his sin not only to God but to man also even to Joshua the Ruler of the people 2 That Achan by confessing his sin should give glory to God and clear his justice both in smiting Israel and in drawing him out to deserved punishment Then Achan freely confessed his sin to Joshua Ver. 20 21 c. that he and no other had committed that hainous offence and thus and thus have I done said he c. Jonahs sin in flying to Tarshish when God sent him to Nineveh Jonah 1. procured a mighty tempest in the Sea so that the ship was like to bee broken and Jonab with all the men and goods in it were in danger to be cast away then Jonah confessed his fault even to the Mariners that were Pagans freely and fully without pleading excuse for it or extenuation of it for the men knew that he had fled from the presence of the Lord Jonah 1.10 because he had told them 2 a particular affliction A particular affliction as sicknesse In this case you must confesse your sins to God chiefly and you may confesse them especially that particular sin which you conceive to be the cause of your sicknesse to men also as to the Elders of the Church and to other Christian friends thereby 1 To justifie God that he is Righteous faithfull yea and mercifull in laying his hand upon you 2 To move men scil the Elders and others your friends to pray more fervently for you 1 That your sins may be pardoned 2 That your sickness may be

of the living c Mat. 16.16 God Joh. 6.69 2 Of his Offices Rabbi said d Joh. 1.49 Nathaniel Thou art the Son of God thou art the King of Israel The Samaritan woman confessed Christ to be a Prophet both to e Joh. 4.19 Vers 29. himself Sir 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I see that thou art a Prophet and before the Samaritans Come saith she See a man which told mee all things that ever I did Is not this the Christ did not John confesse Christs Priestly Office when he said Joh. 1.29 Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world All that confessed him to be the Christ or Messiah did implicitly at least acknowledge his offices scil to be King Priest and Prophet to which he was anointed 3 Of his beauty excellency and dignity What a large confession did the Spouse make of Christs beauty to the Daughters of Jerusalem when they asked her what is thy Beloved more than another Beloved Cant. 5.9 my Beloved is white and ruddy the chiefest among ten thousand John confessed the dignity Vers 10 c. and excellency of Christ when he said I am not the Christ but his praecurtor Joh. 1.20 or harbinger and he is preferred before mee whose shooes latchet I am not worthy to unloose Ver. 27. and in his last testimony of Christ in Joh. 3.28 to 33. he saith that Christ is the Bridegroom of his Church he was but the Bridegroomes friend that Christ must increase hee decrease this was Johns joy that Christ came from Heaven above and is above all and therefore hath justly most high preheminence This is held forth in that Catholick confession of Christs divine Nature Power Soveraignty and Excellency that he is worthy to receive all honour glory and blessing in Rev. 5.11 12 13. 4 Especially of those things concerning Christ which others deny or doubt of as his resurrection from the dead In the times of the Gospel the Jews and Gentiles confessed Christs death Act. 4.2 but would not acknowledge his resurrection the Priest and Sadduces were grieved that the Apostles preached it Therefore Christians were required to make confession of this Truth in those times scil that God raised Christ from the dead Rom. 10.9 and they should be saved Therefore Paul boldly confessed the resurrection of the dead Act. 24.15 before the Council Act. 23.6 and before Felix 2 Confession is an open profession of our selves in reference to Christ in five Particulars 1 Of our Faith in Christ and his Gospel as the Father of the Child in Mar 9.24 cryed out and said with tears Lord I beleeve help thou mine unbelief and the blind man in Joh. 9.38 Lord I beleeve Paul confessed his Faith and Hope before Felix Act. 24.15 I beleeve all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets and have hope towards God Surely shall one say that is confess saith the Lord by the Prophet Isaiah chap. 45.23 24. in the Lord have I Righteousness and strength and of our interest in God and in Christ by Faith as David did upon all occasions He is my God my portion Job made an excellent confession of his Faith in Christ as his Redeemer before his Friends Job 19.25 26 27. as Thomas did when he said My Lord Joh. 20 2● and my God and the Spouse my wel-beloved is mine and I am his Cant. 2.16 This is the Name whereby Christ shall be called i. e. confessed by us Jehovah our Righteousness Jer. 23.6 2 Of the grace of Christ in us of the work and workings of it Such a confession Paul made to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 15.10 By the Grace of God I am that I am q. d that gives mee my specifical being life and operation as I am a Christian and his grace in mee was not in vain but I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with mee And he made the like to Timothy 1 Tim. 1.13 14. that hee had been a blasphemer and a persecutor c. but the Grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with Faith and love which is in Christ Jesus q. d. God wrought a wonderfull change in mee by Grace to make mee a new Creature by Faith and Love to form Christ in mee and to conform mee unto Christ And when he declared his conversion before the people in Acts 22. 1 King 18.12 Obadiah professed his fear of God to Elijah I thy Servant fear the Lord from my youth Peter professed his love of Christ yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee Joh. 21.16 and David professed God to be his exceeding joy Psal 43.4 and Paul his glorying in the Cross of Christ Gal. 6.14 2. Cor. 12.10 3 Of our worship of God after a Gospell mode purely and spiritually without humane Inventions or superstitious vanities This we should openly own and professe though others dislike it and call it Schism or Novelism 〈◊〉 24.13 14. So did Paul before Felix They cannot prove the things whereof they now accuse me but this I confesse unto thee that after the way that they call Heresie so worship I the God of my Fathers 4 Of our Practice or manner of life what is the constant Bent Act. 24.16 or Bias of our Resolutions and indeavours Paul also confessed this before Felix Herein do I exercise my self to have alwayes a conscience void of offence towards God Act. 23.1 and towards men and before the Council I have lived in all good conscience before God until this day 5 Confession is an open Profession of our experiences of God and of his gracious dealings with us of Christ and of his Grace in us love to us and of our fellowship with him The account David gave to them that feared God was a confession of his experiences Psal 66.16 Come and hear all yee that fear God and I will declare what hee hath done for my soul Such was Johns first Epistle wherein he declares to all 1 Joh. 1.1 3. that which the Apostles have seen heard and felt Relations of experiences are Confessions of Christ before men I may adde that to bear witnesse against sin is to give Testimony for God which is good and acceptable service to God though wee suffer for it as John the Baptist lost his head for witnessing against Herods Adultery and Incest Mar. 6.18 27. The second thing 2 When. When this Confession should bee made to wit when wee are called thereunto either publickly or privately 1 Publickly either by a Church or by a Magistrate 1 By a Church of Christ either 1 At the Constitution of it 2 Or at our admission into it 1 At the Constitution of it for the Lord Jesus makes the confession of faith to be the Rock or foundation upon which his visible Church is built Mat. 16.16 to 19. Therefore when he first was about to tell his Apostles

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