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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.
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGUE.
OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TONGVE.
CAP. I. Of the general means of ruling the tongue.
CAP. I. Of the generall meanes of ruling the tongue.
THE government of the tongue is a virtue pertaining to the holy usage of the tongue according to Gods word.
THE government of the tongue is a vertue pertaining to the holy usage of the tongue according to Gods worde.
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.