A05817:1090
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 spiritual sigh upon the third thought.
The spirituall sigh vpon the third thought.
O Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the living GOD, who art the only Physician, that canst ease my body from pain, and restore my Soul to life eternal: put thy Passion, Cross, and death betwixt my Soul and thy Judgement: and let the merits of thy Obedience stand betwixt thy Fathers Justice, and my disobedience: and from these bodily pains receive my soul into thine everlasting peace: for I cry unto thee with Stephen, Lord Jesus receive my spirit.1
O Lord Iesus Christ, the Sonne of the liuing GOD, vvho art the onely Physitian, that canst ease my body from paine, and restore my Soule to life eternall: put thy Passion, Crosse, and death betwixt my Soule and thy Iudgement: and let the merits of thy Obedience stand betwixt thy Fathers Iustice, and my disobedience: and from these bodily paines receiue my soule into thine euerlasting peace: for I cry vnto thee with Stephen, Lord Iesu receiue my spirit.1