A direction for the government of the tongue according to Gods word

CAP. X. Of Writing.

ALL this which is set down […] concerning speech, must as well be practised in writing as in speaking. Whereby are condemned ballads, books of love, all idle discourses and histories, being nothing else but enticements and baits unto manifold sins, fitter for Sodom and Gomorrah then for Gods Church. And it must be followed as well in speaking of Latin or any other tongue, as English, which students have not marked: for whereas they will not swear in English, yet in Latin they make no bones of it, saying, Mehercule, mediùs fidiùs, aedipol, per deos immortals. And whereas they hold but one God in judgement, yet in their Latin exercises, they speak of Jupiter, and of the immortal gods, after the manner of the ⟨p. 59⟩heathen. What a shame is this, that a Christian, and that in Christian schools, should either be ashamed or not use to speak as a Christian, but as Atheists do? If thou have many tongues and knowest not how to use them well: he which hath but his mother tongue, ordering it aright, is a better linguist then thou.

ALL this which is set downe 〈…〉 concerning speech, must as well be practised in writing as in speaking. Whereby are condemned ballads, bookes of loue, all idle discourses and histories, being nothing els but inticements and baites unto manifold sinnes, fitter for Sodom and Gomorrah then for Gods Church. And it must be followed as well in speaking of Latine or any other tongue, as English, which students haue not marked: for whereas they will not sweare in English, yet in Latine they make no bones of it, saying, Mehercule, mediùs fidiùs, aedipol, per deos immortales. And whereas they holde but one God in judgement, yet in their Latine exercises, they speake of Iupiter, and of the immortall gods, after the manner of the ⟨p. 59⟩