* I do not desire you to refrain from saying _thou_ or _thee_. I would not spend ten words about it. But I desire you whenever you speak at all, to speak the truth, and nothing but the truth. I desire your words may always be the picture of your heart. This is truly _plain language_. * Either do not pretend to _plain speech_ at all, or be _uniformly plain_. Are you so? I pray, consider. Do you never _compliment_? I do not suppose you say, “Sir, your very humble servant.” But do you say no _civil things_? Do you never _flatter_? Do you not _commend_ any man or woman to their face? Perhaps farther than you do behind their back. Is this _plainness of speech_? Do you never _dissemble_? Do you speak to all persons, high or low, rich or poor, just what you think, neither more nor less, and in the shortest and clearest manner you can? If not, what a mere jest is your _plain language_? You carry your condemnation in your own breast. 6. You hold also, That “he which is led by the Spirit, will use great _plainness of dress_, seeking no _outward adorning_, but only the _ornament of a meek and quiet spirit_.” And that, in particular, “he will leave _gold and costly apparel_, to those who know not God.” * Now I appeal to every serious, reasonable man among you, Do your people act consistently with this principle? Do not many of your women wear _gold_ upon their very feet? And many of your men use _ornaments of gold_? Are you a stranger to these things? Have you not seen with your eyes (such ♦trifles as will scarce bear the naming) their _canes_ and _snuff-boxes_ glitter, even in your solemn assembly, while ye were waiting together upon God? Surely, they are not yet so lost to modesty, as to pretend, that they do not use them by way of _ornament_. If they do not, if it be only out of necessity, a _plain oaken stick_ will supply the place of the one, and a piece of _horn_ or _tin_ will unexceptionably answer all the reasonable ends of the other. ♦ “triflings” replaced with “trifles” per Errata