A09391:39
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.
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.
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.
1Contrary to this is rotten speech, that is, all such talk as is void of grace, which is the heart and pith of our speech.
1Contrarie to this is rotten speach, that is, all such talke as is voide of grace, which is the heart and pith of our speach.
- 1Ephe. 4.25. [Greek or Hebrew].Ephe. 4.25. 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.