A05817:1130
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 Practise of Piety in dying for the Lord, is termed Martyrdom.
THE Practise of Piety in dying for the Lord, is termed Martyrdome.
1Martyrdom, is the testimony which a Christian beareth to the doctrine of the Gospel, 2by enduring any kind of death: to invite many, and to confirm all, to embrace the truth thereof. To this kind of death, Christ hath promised a crown: 3Be thou faithful unto the death, and I will give thee the crown of life. Which promise the Church so firmly believed, that they termed Martyrdom it self, a crown: and God to animate Christians to this excellent prize,4 would by a prediction that Stephen, the first Christian Martyr should have his name of a crown.
1Martyrdome, is the testimony which a Christian beareth to the doctrine of the Gospell, 2by enduring any kinde of death: to inuite many, and to confirme all, to embrace the truth thereof. To this kinde of death, Christ hath promised a crowne: 3Be thou faithfull vnto the death, and I will giue thee the crowne of life. Which promise the Church so firmely beleeued, that they termed Martyrdome it selfe, a crowne: and God to animate Christians to this excellent prize,4 would by a prediction that Stephen, the first Christian Martyr should haue his name of a crowne.