A20762:1093
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the dutiesA guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties
A guide to godliness or a Treatise of a Christian life showing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helps enabling & the reasons persuading unto it the impediments hindering the practise of it, and the best means to remove them whereunto are added divers prayers and a treatise of carnal security by John Douname Bachelor in Divinity and minister of Gods Word.A guide to godlynesse or a Treatise of a Christian life shewing the duties wherein it consisteth, the helpes inabling & the reasons parswading vnto it ye impediments hindering ye practise of it, and the best meanes to remoue them whereunto are added diuers prayers and a treatise of carnall securitie by Iohn Douname Batcheler in Diuinitie and minister of Gods Word.
London: printed by Felix Kingstone and William Stansby for Ed, 1622
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.
CAP. XXVIII.
Of Christian conferences, which we must use when we are in company, for our mutual good.
Of Christian conferences, which we must vse when we are in company, for our mutuall good.
§. Sect. 1 That our speeches must be gracious and prudent.
§. Sect. 1 That our speeches must bee gracious and prudent.
AND these are the duties which generally concern our whole conversation in company. The special duties respect either our words and conferences, or our works and actions; In all our conferences with our brethren we are to observe two things. First, that our speech be gracious. Secondly, that it be wise and prudent. Both which are required by the Apostle; Let your speech (saith he) be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that 1is, wisely fitted to the time, persons, occasions, and other circumstances, and uttered prudently in due season. Our speech is gracious, when it savoureth of grace and goodness, and appeareth to proceed from the Spirit of God dwelling in us, as though he used our tongues to deliver by them that which he suggesteth and inspireth into us; whereby it becometh gracious and acceptable in the ears of God and all good men. And unto