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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. 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.
3. It's an occasion of misspending much precious time, and of abusing that gift of Wit which God hath given for the good and profit of others, and not for the hurt and disgrace of any.
3. It's an occasion of mispending much precious time, and of abusing that gift of Wit which God hath given for the good and profit of others, and not for the hurt and disgrace of any.
Pleasantness of converse, so it be innocent, and tending to good, is both allowable and commendable: but that liberty of Wit which we intend for a recreation, should be but as Sauce to our meat, but little as to the measure of it, and profitable as to the end of it; namely, to whet the appetite to that which is better.