Ver. 29. _The Government of the Tongue._

I. The apostle +cautions us against all loose and licentious

language.+

+II. Enticing language is forbidden.+

+III. Corrupt communication includes all kinds of vain discourse;+

all such language as offends Christian sobriety, seriousness,

and gravity, savours of profaneness and impiety, or borders on

obscenity and lewdness.

+IV. Instruction is useful to edifying.+

+V. Reproof conducted with prudence is useful to edifying.+

+VI. Exhortation is good for the use of edifying.+

+VII. Christians may edify one another by communicating things they

have experienced in the course of the religious life.+

+VIII. Conversing on religious subjects in general is good for the

use of edifying.+--_Lathrop._

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