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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

to say and infirmities that wee cannot speak what wee would as it did Moses against the impediment in his Speech that God would bee with his mouth Deut. 18.18 and teach him what to say and put his words into his mouth and Jeremy when he complained r Jer. 1.6 Ah Lord God behold I cannot speak or I know not to speak wanting wisdome and experience gravity and authority in regard of my young years therefore unfit to be sent a Prophet unto the Nations But the Lord said unto mee vers 7. Say not I am a Child for thou shalt go to all that I shall send thee and whatsoever I command thee thou shalt speak● then the Lord put forth his hand and touched his mouth Vers 7. Vers 9. and said unto him Behold I have put my words in thy mouth This was done in visional appearance to Jeremiah yet we may comfortably expect a real performance thereof to us upon the account of his promise that God will put his words or right answers into our mouths or direct us what to say 3 God is the Doner of his spirit putting him within us to guide our Tongues order our speech and to speak in us especially in evil times when Christ borroweth the mouths of his Servants in his own cause to give Testimony thereunto when ye are brought before Governours and Kings for my sake saith Christ ſ Mat. 10.18 19 20. take no thought that is be not anxious or perplexedly solicitous how or what ye shall speak for it shall be given you in that same hour what yee shall speak for it is not yee that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaketh in you or as Luke hath it The Holy Ghost shall teach you in the same hour Luk. 12.11 12 what ye ought to say Gods Spirit teacheth the dexterity and safety of Answers and Replyes and of queries also The Disputants with Stephen were not able to resist the wisdome and the spirit by which hee spake t Act. 6.10 How well should we speak to purpove and to profit yea unto victory and speak irresistably and invincibly peircingly and powerfully if the Spirit of God speak in us The tongue is a pen in the hand of Gods Spirit to write as he guides what hee will We stand in need of light to let us see how to guide our Tongues as well as our hands or feet of light to speak by as well as to work or walk by Therefore Elihu said u Job 37.19 we cannot order our speech to wit to God by reason of darknesse i. e. of our Minds Now it is the Spirit of God that inlightens us in understanding in speech and in actions then let us pray and resolve 1 Pray heartily that God would be with our mouths as hee was with Moses at all times and teach us what wee should say and touch our mouths as hee did Jeremiahs and put his words into them that he would give us the Tongue of the learned as he did Isaiah and the door of utterance as hee did Paul that the preparations of our Hearts and the answers of our Tongues to every question motion or whatsoever shall bee proposed to us may bee from the Lord given into our hearts and mouths by Gods hand yea when wee are put upon speaking by sudden occasions wee should first lift up our hearts to God in an Ejaculation for direction what to say 2 Let us resolve voluntarily and obedientially with w 2 Chron 18.13 Micajah As the Lord liveth even what my God sayeth that will I speak all that and onely that not constrainedly as Balaam when hee said The word that God putteth into my mouth that shall I speak 3 God is Lord over the Tongue to keep it from evil to wit from 1 Evil words 2 Evil Sprits 1 From evil yea and from idle words too that they come not out Great is our propensity thereto 2 From evil spirits that they come not in as a lying spirit did into the mouths of all Ahabs x 1 Kin. 22.22 Prophets to delude them with lyes in Gods just judgement giving Ahab over to bee mis-led by their delusions to his own destruction As the Devil formed his own words by the mouth of the Serpent Gen. 3.1 So hee useth the Tongues of wicked men to speak his words and serve his turn As God spake by the mouths of his holy Prophets Luk. 1.70 all agreeing as if they had but one mouth amongst them all and Christ by the mouth of his Apostles So Satan speaks by the mouth of his Instruments false Teachers Seducers Deceivers Gainsayers of such as Contradict and blaspheme as the Jews did Pauls doctrin y Act. 13.45 as resist the Truth as Paul foretold the enemies thereof should do in the last z 2 Tim. 3.1 8 Times as slander and rail against Gods servants 3 John 10 as Diotrephes prated against John and them hee sent with malicious words Satan that old Serpent speaks in the mouths and by the Tongues of all such of whom it may bee said it is not they only or principally that speak but the spirit of the Devil of Falshood Lyes Errors the spirit of Envy malice giddinesse perversnesse and bitternesse that speaks in them as he did in a Act. 13.8 9 10 Elymas Satans design is by the Tongues of his Instruments to discourage men from good or to draw them into Errors and delusions or into lusts and destruction what a deal of mischief doth the Devil in the world by thrusting evil spirits through Gods permission into the mouths of men and women which is a means to fill the world with wickednesse and they are so subtil and insinuating as it s as difficult to keep them out as to keep the serpent out of Paradise So easily and imperceptibly will they wind themselves in They will bee creeping into our mouths continually if our mouths bee not kept close shut against them It is rare in our daies to meet with a mouth that hath no evil spirit of any kind in it neither spirit of Error nor spirit of falshood deceit nor of perversnesse nor an unclean spirit What need have wee to commit our Tongues into Gods custody and to pray with David set a watch O Lord before my mouth keep thou the doors of my b Psal 14. ● Lips q. d. Lord keep my Tongue as under lock and key as with watch and ward So as no sinfull or idle or rash words may break forth to thy dishonour and so as no ill spirit of any kind may enter in to mis-lead defile or deprave my Tongue strict watch is set at gates of Cities and doors of houses in times of danger to shut enemies out and keep all safe within now the mouth is the door and gate of the man when there is war in the gates of our mouths or fighting against God by evill words there can bee no peace with