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The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan…
The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan showing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...The young man's guide through the wilderness of this world to the heavenly Canaan shewing him how to carry himself Christian-like in the whole course of his life / by Tho. Gouge ...
London: printed by S. and B.G. for Nevil Simmons, 1676
THE Young Man's Guide. › Chapter 19: Of the well▪ ordering and governing our Words.
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. Obscene and wanton speeches, which he calleth filthiness, and reckoneth amongst those evil speakings, which he would not have named amongst Christians: Yet how full of them are the mouths of many young men? who make it their repast and reputation to utter wanton speeches, to tell filthy tales, and to sing Songs of love and lightness, full of abominable filthiness; which plainly showeth the pollution and uncleanness of their hearts; for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, Matth. 13. 34. Obscene and unchaste ⟨p. 110⟩speeches, as they spring from, so they are great provocations to lust; For evil communications corrupt good manners, 1 Cor. 15. 33. words being as the vent of an unclean heart, and as Bellows to blow up its filthy fire into a greater flame.
1. Obscene and wanton speeches, which he calleth filthiness, and reckoneth amongst those evil speakings, which he would not have named amongst Christians: Yet how full of them are the mouths of many young men? who make it their repast and reputation to utter wanton speeches, to tell filthy tales, and to sing Songs of love and lightness, full of abominable filthiness; which plainly sheweth the pollution and uncleanness of their hearts; for out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh, Matth. 13. 34. Obscene and unchaste ⟨p. 110⟩speeches, as they spring from, so they are great provocations to lust; For evil communications corrupt good manners, 1 Cor. 15. 33. words being as the vent of an unclean heart, and as Bellows to blow up its filthy fire into a greater flame.