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Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up…
Christian directions, showing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...Christian directions, shewing how to walk with God all the day long drawn up for the use and benefit of the inhabitants of Sepulchres parish / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by R. Ibbitson and M. Wright, 1661
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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 corrupt speeches against others, there are many kinds; as,
1 Imprecations, for it is usual, if not much more usual, to make fearful imprecations against others, as well as against our selves, which as they are corrupt speeches, so are they ill-beseeming Christians.
2 Unclean and unchaste• speeches are another kind of corrupt communication. Some mens mouths are always full of them; which plainly showeth the pollution of their hearts, and how their minds are wholly set on lust.
2 Unclean and unchaste• speeches are another kind of corrupt communication. Some mens mouthes are always full of them; which plainly sheweth the pollution of their hearts, and how their minds are wholly set on lust.
3 Idle and vain discourses which tend to no good, are another kind of corrupt speeches; as old Wives fables, talking of matters not belonging to us, prattling of any thing that comes into ones head.