A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God

If the words spoken be not understood,¹ they are as spoken into the air, altogether in vain: and the speaker and hearer are as Barbarians one to another. No more benefit can be received by the words of a man not understood, then by the indistinct voice of an unreasonable creature. But suppose the words be such as in themselves are intelligible, being English words to an English man, yet if the sense and meaning of them be not conceived, they are to no better purpose then words of a strange and unknown language. Words have ⟨p. 333⟩sometimes a figurative sense and meaning, which if it be not understood, the proper and true use and benefit of them is lost. If Christ had not made his Disciples to understand the sense and meaning of this direction,² Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees, they had got no good at all thereby. It is therefore necessary that as the words themselves, so the proper sense of them be well understood.

If the words spoken bee not vnderstood,¹ they are as spoken into the aire, altogether in vaine: and the speaker and hearer are as Barbarians one to another. No more benefit can bee receiued by the words of a man not vnderstood, then by the indistinct voice of an vnreasonable creature. But suppose the words bee such as in themselues are intelligible, being English words to an English man, yet if the sence and meaning of them bee not conceiued, they are to no better purpose then words of a strange and vnknowne language. Words haue ⟨p. 333⟩sometimes a figuratiue sence and meaning, which if it bee not vnderstood, the proper and true vse and benefit of them is lost. If Christ had not made his Disciples to vnderstand the sence and meaning of this direction,² Take heed and beware of the leauen of the Pharisies and of the Sadduces, they had got no good at all thereby. It is therefore necessarie that as the words themselues, so the proper sence of them be well vnderstood.