A05817:445
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Secondly, for thy Words.
1 Remember, that thou must answer for every aidle word: that in bmultiloquy, the wisest man shall over-shoot himself. Avoid therefore all tedious and idle talk, whereof seldom ariseth comfort, 3many times repentance: especially beware of rash answers, when the tongue out-runs the mind. The word was thine whilst thou keptest it in: it is *another's as soon as it is out. O the shame, when a mans own tongue shall be produced ⟨p. 369⟩a witness, to the confusion of his own face!
1 REmember, that thou must answere for euery aidle word: that in bmultiloquie, the wisest man shall ouer-shoote himselfe. Auoid therefore all tedious and idle talke, whereof seldome ariseth comfort, 3many times repentance: especially beware of rash answeres, when the tongue out-runs the minde. The word was thine whilest thou keptst it in: it is *anothers as soone as it is out. O the shame, when a mans owne tongue shall be produced