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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.
Let then thy words be few, but advised: fore-think whether that which thou art to speak, be fit to be spoken:1 affirm no more then what thou knowest to be true, and be rather csilent, then speak to an ill, or to no purpose.
Let then thy wordes be few, but aduised: fore-thinke whether that which thou art to speake, be fit to be spoken:1 affirme no more then what thou knowest to be true, and be rather csilent, then speake to an ill, or to no purpose.
- 1Nescit paenitenda loqui, qui proferenda priù• s•o tradidit examini. Cassiod. lib, 10. Ep. 4.
- cJames 1.19 Consultiùs est tacere quam ineptè loqui.Iames 1.19 Consultiùs est tacere quam ineptè loqui.
2 Let thy heart and tongue ever go together in honesty and truth: hate ddissembling and lying in another, detest it in thy self, or GOD will detest thee for it: for he hateth the liar, 2and his father the Devil alike. And if once thou be discovered to make no conscience of lying, no man will believe thee when thou speakest a truth, but if thou lovest truth, more credit will