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A direction for the government of the tongue according to Gods word
Cambridge: printed by John Legate printer to the University of Cambridge, 1593Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate printer to the Vniuersity of Cambridge, 1593
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Chapter 1: OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE.Chapter 1: OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGVE.
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.
And for the well ordering of it, two things are requisite: a pure heart, and skill in the language of Canaan.
The pure heart is most necessary,1 because it is the fountain of speech, and if the fountain be defiled, the streams that issue thence can not be clean.
The pure heart is most necessarie,1 because it is the fountaine of speech, and if the fountaine be defiled, the streames that issue thence can not be cleane.
And because the heart of man by ⟨p. 2⟩nature is a bottomless gulf of iniquity, two things are to be known: first, how it must be made pure: and then how it is always afterward to be kept pure.
And because the heart of man by ⟨p. 2⟩nature is a bottomlesse gulfe of iniquitie, two things are to be knowen: first, howe it must be made pure: and then howe it is alwayes afterwarde to be kept pure.