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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.
3. Jesting is the next kind of evil speaking, mentioned by the Apostle, Eph. 5. 4. whereby he especially meaneth such jesting as tends to the abusing of Scripture, or deriding such as fear God, or mocking of our Neighbour. The word [Greek or Hebrew], in the Text, Aristotle sets down for a Virtue, which the Apostle there condemneth for a Vice. And truly Jesting (especially without great watchfulness, as to the matter and measure of it) doth very ill become Christians. For,
3. Iesting is the next kind of evil speaking, mentioned by the Apostle, Eph. 5. 4. whereby he especially meaneth such jesting as tends to the abusing of Scripture, or deriding such as fear God, or mocking of our Neighbour. The word 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in the Text, Aristotle sets down for a Vertue, which the Apostle there condemneth for a Vice. And truly Iesting (especially without great watchfulness, as to the matter and measure of it) doth very ill become Christians. For,
1. It's not agreeable to our Profession, which requireth a very grave and serious Spirit, and behaviour.
2. It's apt to put the heart out of tune, to discompose it for those weighty and spiritual concernments which we have before us, and to dispose us for vanity and frothiness.