A05817:1061
The Practice of Piety
The practise of piety directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God.The practise of pietie directing a Christian how to walke that he may please God.
London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613
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.
Consolations against Impatience in sickness.
Consolations against Impatiencie in sicknesse.
IF in thy sickness by extremity of pain thou be driven to Impatience; meditate,
IF in thy sicknesse by extremitie of paine thou be driuen to Impatiencie; meditate,
1 That thy sins have deserved the pains of Hell: therefore thou mayest with greater patience, endure these fatherly corrections.
1 That thy sinnes haue deserued the paines of Hell: therefore thou maist vvith greater patience, endure these fatherly corrections.
2 That these are the scourges of thy Heavenly Father, and the rod in his hand. If thou diddest suffer with reverence being a child, the correction of thy earthly Parents;1 how much rather shouldest thou now subject thy self, (being the child of God) to the chastisements of ⟨p. 927⟩