the warts [31]in his Boys face, though they are deformed marks. When _Brutus_ and _Cassius_ assaulted _Cæsar_ with a design and resolution to murther him, we read, that as soon as he saw _Brutus_ he cryed {25} out, [Greek: Kai su teknon]; _And art thou here my Son, my Darling_? and opened his breast to him. So when any Lust comes to assault us with a design to make us dead in sin, we court and caress it in _Cæsars_ words, Art thou here, my Darling? and open our hearts and breasts unto it; whereas we should alwayes be prepared with preservatories against it. 4. Let your discourse be alwayes chast and pure: Decline with great care all undecent obscenity in your language, chastening and confining your tongue, and restraining it with Grace; for, as St. _James_ tells us, _Jam_. 3. 2. _If any man offend not in word_ (tongue) _the same is a perfect man, and able also to bridle the whole body._ Either be silent, or speak those things which are better then silence, is a good Rule here. Every bad tree is known by its bad fruit, and an unclean man may be trac'd by his unclean discourse; it being a shrewd symptom the Will is depraved, when our Discourse is unchaste and obscene. And in this [32]_Hierocles_ concurrs with me; _The Will of man_ {26} (saith he) _adhering long neither to Virtue nor Vice, utters forth expressions inclining to both, as resembling the contrary affections in it_. This advice therefore of _Tyrius Maximus_ is very soveraign; [33]_I require such a pleasure in words which Virtue may not disdain to make her Waiting-woman and attend upon her._ St. _James_ calls the Tongue a _fire_, Jam. 3. 6. And the School-men call the Lusts of the Flesh (_Fomes_) Tinder. Let us therefore be careful that the Fire of our Tongue light not upon this Tinder, and kindle it. Modesty and a becoming Blush is the _Fence_ of all Virtue; and when this is broken down by obscene talk, the _Banks_ will overflow with impure _Streams_. A Rose, when it hath lost its blush, and begins to look pale, by those symptoms you may conclude that 'tis a dying. It hath ever been accounted a true Rule, _Qualis Vir, talis Oratio_. We know the Bird by the Tune, the Beagle by his Mouth, and a Man by his Words. We cannot expect that he that hath lost his _voice_ with his _Chastity_ should sing Praises to God so _melodiously_ as another that is chaste, virtuous, and continent. A {27} stinking breath is not a more sure symptom of _putrid Lungs_, then an obscene Tongue of an _unclean Heart_. 'Twere better that this _Clapper_ stood still, except it could give a _purer sound_; it were better this _Clock_ never struck, except it were for other ends then to awaken our Lusts, and put them in motion. And I look upon obscene discourse but as an _impure Breath_ coming out of the mouth, which is fit for nothing but to make an _Exhalation_ or _Ignis fatuus_, which (if we follow it) will lead us into Bogs and precipices of _Uncleanness_; but if we _fall down_, and prostrate our