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The seventh Duty wherein we must ¹offer violence to ourselves, is holy conference: and indeed we are backward enough to it, therefore had need herein provoke our selves, Mal. 3. 17. They that feared the Lord spake often one to another. A gracious person hath not only Religion in his heart, but in his tongue, Psal. 37. 30. The Law of God is in his heart, and his tongue talketh of Judgement: he drops holy words as Pearls. 'Tis the fault of Christians, that they do not in company provoke themselves to set good discourse on foot: it is a sinful modesty: there is much visiting, but they do not give one another's souls a visit. In worldly things their tongue is as the Pen of a ready Writer^*; but in matters of Religion, they are as if their tongue did cleave to the roof of their mouth. As we must answer to God for idle words; so for sin-full silence.

The seventh Duty wherein we must ¹offer violence to ourselves, is holy conference: and indeed we are backward enough to it, therefore had need herein provoke our selves, Mal. 3. 17. They that feared the Lord spake often one to another. A gracious person hath not only Religion in his heart, but in his tongue, Psal. 37. 30. The Law of God is in his heart, and his tongue talketh of Judgement: he drops holy words as Pearls. 'Tis the fault of Christians, that they do not in company provoke themselves to set good discourse on foot: it is a sinfull modesty: there is much visiting, but they do not give one anothers souls a visit. In worldly things their tongue is as the Pen of a ready Writer^*; but in matters of Religion, they are as if their tongue did cleave to the roof of their mouth. As we must answer to God for idle words; so for sin-full silence.