The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Let then thy words be few, but advised: forethink whether that which thou art to speak, be^e fit to be spoken: affirm no more than what thou knowest to be true; and be rather^f silent, than speak to an ill, or to no purpose.

1. eNescit poenitenda loqui, qui proferenda priùs suo tradidit examini Cassiod. lib. 10. Epist. 4.
2. fJam. 1 19. Consultius est tacere quam ineptè loqui.

2. Let thy heart and tongue ever go together ⟨p. 169⟩in honesty and truth; hate^d dissembling and lying in another, detest it in thy self, or God will detest thee for it: for he hateth a liar, and his father the Devil alike. And if once thou be discovered to make no conscience of lying, no Man will believe thee when thou speakest a truth: but if thou lovest truth, more credit will be given to thy word, than to a liars oath. Great is the possession which Satan hath in those, who are so accustomed to lying, that they will lye though they get nothing by it themselves, nor are not compelled unto it by others. Let not thine anger remain, when thou seest the cause removed: and ever distinguish 'twixt him that offendeth of^f infirmity (or against his will) and him who offendeth^g maliciously, and of set purpose: let the one have pity, the other justice.