CrtAP.3.2 ACan,amewtaie von the 566 not onely in taking , but feekkngoccafions of exercifing the duties of merde and lone: for there ismore in itthen the feruing ofeverybegger at doore; who themofl of them hue in the breach of Gods commaun- dement, and in acourfe againfl all good order; they might bethinke themofmany poore and careful! Chriflians, force labouring vnderpo- uertie,fotne vnder debt, fornevnder fickeneffe,fome vnder temptation, force vnder oneburden, Come vnder anothet,whofe lreceflìtiesought to be inquired inro,and fo occafio.ns fought ofreleeuiug Chrifi hiinfelfe in his members; the want ofthis inquirie, is thecaufeofmuchvnfruitful- neffe. Here I might freeour dodìrine from that Popifh imputation,challen- ging it as anenemie to good works;hut ofthat we (hall more fully fpeak in the t4. verfe. Yea. 21 That theyfpeake exit/ ofnoman, The fpeciall precepts which are to be performed toall Chriflians, are propounded, a.negatiuey, z.pofitirtey. Thenegatiue requireth the good aboering, r . of the tongue, That they fpeake cue!! ofnoman: z. ofrhe hands, nofightert. The affirmatiue laieth bridle vpon the affeétions, bitfoft, (hewing allnteekener todime's. The word eon. For the firft. The word is a rule not onely ofdeing well, but offpeak,_ dunbridemnelthe ed el tog well allo; p and condemnethas well vnbrideled f eaches as diforde-, ches asdiford:. ted a6tions, and frameth as well the tongue to euery good fpeach,as the red a&íons. hand toeuerie goodworke: and therefore fitly is this precept induced vpon the former: inftruaing beleeuers that as they mull beready toenery goodwork; fo allo mutt they as readily exercife their tongues in furable (peaches, abandoning all hurtfull language, tending to thedi:grace or. iniurie of any man : teeing there twomay not be diuorced in him that would dwell in the Lords Tabernacle ; *rho muffbe both 4 worker of righteoufnet,andafpeaker ofthe truth in his heart: and noflauadererofhis neighbour; Pfal.r q. Queff. The Apofile feeming roprohibit all cull! (peaking, whether is it not lawful! to fpeake the euill we knowe by another,fo we fpeakeno- thing but truth? Anfro. It is neuer lawful! in any vncalled to fpeake What cares a it. But if queflion bewhen man is called, I anfwer, that God giueth a man calling in diuerfe cafes, r. When any man is publikelycâlled before amagiflrate,'to teflifie of a fast, for the clearing of force truth, and execution of iufice, and now to fpeake the truth, is to flrengthen. finews of humane focietie. 2. Privately, when a truth is called into, 2 queflion betweene man and man, andcannot otherwife be cleared then by rubbingTome old fore;efpecially if in filcha cafe amans owne credit 3 behazarded, andcannot otherwife be faued. I. Whena man counfe!- leth man may fpeak of the cuill he kaowethbyan other.
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