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Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity…
Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithful Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...Riches of mercy to men in misery, or, Certain excellent treatises concerning the dignity and duty of Gods children by the late Reverend and Faithfull Minister of Jesus Christ, John Preston ...
London: printed by J.T., 1658
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.
The phrase must not be light or metrical speeches, that 1it stand not upon paronomasias and verbal conceits, that it do tickle the ears and move laughter, or poetical allusions, as the hire of a whore might not be brought into the temple though it was silver, because of the baseness of the thing whence it was raised, so though they be as fit as others, yet they must not be brought into sermons because of the base ground whence they were raised.
The phrase must not be light or metrical speeches, that 1it stand not upon paranomasias and verbal conceits, that it do tickle the ears and move laughter, or poetical allusions, as the hire of a whore might not be brought into the temple though it was silver, because of the baseness of the thing whence it was raised, so though they be as fit as others, yet they must not be brought into sermons because of the base ground whence they were raised.
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Let it not be done frequently or with affectation, but occasionally when we meet with it, and so that ordinary 1people may know that it comes by the way, the better to express our mind.
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In this case it is not meet the Author should be named, ⟨p. 313⟩