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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
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CAP. IIII. What is to be done in speaking; and of wisdom.
CAP. IIII. What is to be done in speaking; and of wisedome.
WHEN we are in speaking, two things are to be practised: first, care must be had of the speech, that it be gracious: secondly, it is to be uttered with convenient bonds of trueth.
WHEN we are in speaking, two thinges are to be practised: first, care must be had of the speach, that it be gratious: secondly, it is to be uttered with convenient bondes of trueth.
The speech is gracious, when it is so uttered,1 that the graces of God wrought in the heart by the holy Ghost, are as it were pictured and painted forth in the same: for speech is the very image of the heart.
The speech is gratious, when it is so uttered,1 that the graces of God wrought in the heart by the holy Ghost, are as it were pictured and painted foorth in the same: for speach is the very image of the heart.
- 1Col. 4.6.