A05817:1131
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.
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.
- 12 Cor. 12.15
- 2Sanguis Martyrum semen ecclesiae. Apoc. 2.10.
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