The sinners guyde A vvorke contayning the whole regiment of a Christian life, deuided into two bookes: vvherein sinners are reclaimed from the by-path of vice and destruction, and brought vnto the high-way of euerlasting happinesse. Compiled in the Spanish tongue, by the learned and reuerend diuine, F. Lewes of Granada. Since translated into Latine, Italian, and French. And nowe perused, and digested into English, by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes, and student in diuinitie.

The eleuenth Chapter.

Of other kindes of sinnes; vvhich a good Christian ought to eschew.

416

The matters handled in this Chapter.

We must not sweare by the life of another.

417

Of murmuring, detraction, and rash iudgement,

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Three euils spring from murmuring.

418

The first euill is detraction and back-biting.

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The second euill is, that it hurts three; the speaker, the hearer, and him, whom the words are spoken of.

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The third euill, it maketh the murmurer execrable and infamous among men.

419

The greatest soueraignty is, to be able to rule thy tongue.

420

Murmurers and detracters are not to be heard.

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How a back-biter and a detracter is to be reproued.

421

Scandall that comes by detraction.

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Agaynst Iesters and Iibers.

422

Of rash iudgement; and of the precepts of the Church.

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Foure precepts of the Church.

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Housholders ought to looke that their families keepe the Sabaoth.

423

Of other kind of sins, which because they seeme small, therefore the world maketh no account to commit them.

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The hurt that the sinnes bring to the soule, which we make so small ac∣count of.

424

In what things these sinnes are committed.

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