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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
II. Accustom your selves to holy con••rences, and good communication; ⟨p. 21⟩It is not sufficient to abstain from corrupt communication, except you accustom your selves to good communication; for it is good and gracious speech which commendeth a good and a sound heart, even as its good fruit which commends a good tree.
II. Accustome your selves to holy con••rences, and good communication; ⟨p. 21⟩It is not sufficient to abstain from corrupt communication, except you accustome your selves to good communication; for it is good and gracious speech which commendeth a good and a sound heart, even as its good fruit which commends a good tree.
III. In all your conferences, 1forbear to speak evil of others; This direction the Apostle James giveth, Speak not, saith he, evil one of another; the word in the original properly signifieth, a speaking one against another, and forbids all manner of words tending to the disgrace and disparagement: of your Neighbour, whether that you speak be for the matter of it true or false; for a man may be said to speak evil of his Neighbour two ways, viz.
III. In all your conferences, 1forbear to speak evil of others; This direction the Apostle Iames giveth, Speak not, saith he, ev•l one of another; the word in the original properly signifieth, a speaking one against another, and forbids all manner of words tending to the disgrace and disparagemen: of your Neighbour, whether that you speak be for the matter of it true or false; for a man may bee said to speak evil of his Neighbour two ways, viz.