A27107:464
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
1. Remember, that thou must answer for everya idle word: that inb multiloquy, the wisest man shall over-shoot himself. Avoid therefore all tedious and idle talk, whereof seldom ariseth comfort, many timesc repentance; especially beware of rash answers, when the tongue out-runs the mind. The word was thine whilst thou keptest it in: it isd another's as soon as it is out. O the shame, when a man's own tongue shall be produced a witness, to the confusion of his own face!
1. REmember, that thou must answer for everya idle word: that inb multiloquy, the wisest man shall over-shoot himself. Avoid therefore all tedious and idle talk, whereof seldom ariseth comfort, many timesc repentance; especially beware of rash answers, when the tongue out-runs the mind. The word was thine whilst thou kept'st it in: it isd anothers as soon as it is out. O the shame, when a man's own tongue shall be produced a witness, to the confusion of his own face!
- aMat. 12. 36.
- bProv. 10. 19.
- cDixisse saepe poenituit, tacuisse verò nunquam.
- d