A05817:1085
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.
The second thought.
Think with what a body of sin thou art loaden;1 what great civill wars are contained in a little world; the flesh fighting against the spirit: 2Passion against Reason: Earth against Heaven: and the world within thee, •anding it self for the world without thee; and that but one only mean remains to end this conflict, Death: which (in Gods appointed time) will separate thy Spirit, from thy flesh: the pure and ⟨p. 946⟩regenerate part of thy soul, from that part which is impure and unregenerated ▪
THinke with what a body of sinne thou art loaden;1 vvhat great ciuill warres are contayned in a little world; the flesh fighting against the spirit: 2Passion against Reason: Earth against Heauen: and the world within thee, •anding it selfe for the world without thee; and that but one onely meane remaines to end this conflict, Death: which (in Gods appoynted time) will seperate thy Spirit, from thy flesh: the pure and ⟨p. 946⟩regenerate part of thy soule, from that part which is impure and vnregenerated