Practical truths tending to promote the power of godliness

There are some that are full of unprofitable words. All their discourses are frothy and unsavoury. You shall never hear a gracious word proceed out of their mouths or any discourse that shall tend unto spiritual edification. This argueth a vain person. Much more is it true, that those evil communications which corrupt good manners, and which a moral and modest Heathen would be ashamed of, profane and filthy speeches, argue a vain and a vile person. And such as give bad counsel. Persons that will persuade others to sin against God, deserve the Name of vain persons. Therefore when Jobs wife, gave him such desperate counsel as that, Job 1. 9. Curse God and aye, probably supposing that if he should curse God, he would quickly die for it, and so be out of his misery, Job calls her a foolish woman, a vain person for giving such wicked advice as that was. There is no good but much hurt that cometh by following sinful suggestions. Therefore evil Counsellors, […] make it their design to […] others into the ways of Error, either […] to judgement or practice, are the vain persons whom my Text, doth in a more peculiar manner refer unto.

There are some that are full of unprofitable words. All their discourses are frothy and unsavoury. You shall never hear a gracious word proceed out of their mouthes or any discourse that shall tend unto spiritual edification. This argueth a vain person. Much more is it true, that those evil communications which corrupt good manners, and which a moral and modest Heathen would be ashamed of, profane and filthy speeches, argue a vain and a vile person. And such as give bad counsil. Persons that will perswide others to sin against God, deserve the Name of vain persons. Therefore when Jobs wife, gave him such desperate counsil as that, Job 1. 9. Curse God and aye, probably supposing that if he should curse God, he would quickly die for it, and so be out of his misery, Job calls her a foolish woman, a vain person for giving such wicked advice as that was. There is no good but much hurt that cometh by following sinful suggestions. Therefore evil Counsellers, 〈…〉 make it their design to 〈…〉 others into the ways of Error, either 〈…〉 to judgement or practice, are the vain persons whom my Text, doth in a more peculiar manner refer unto.