A05817:163
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.
Meditations of the misery of the soul in this life.
Meditations of the miserie of the soule in this life.
The misery of thy Soul will more evidently appear, if thou wilt but consider: 1 The felicity she hath lost. 2 The misery which she hath pulled upon her self by sin.
THe miserie of thy Soule will more euidently appeare, if thou wilt but consider: 1 The felicitie shee hath lost. 2 The misery which shee hath pulled vpon her selfe by sinne.
1 The Felicity lost was first the fruition of the Image of God, whereby the soul was ⟨p. 89⟩like unto GOD in aknowledge, enabling her perfectly to understand the revealed will of GOD. Secondly, true Holiness, by which she was free from all profane error. Thirdly, Righteousness, whereby she was able to incline all her natural powers, and to frame uprightly all her actions proceeding from those powers. With the loss of this divine Image, she lost the Love of GOD, and the blessed communion which she had with his Majesty; wherein consisted her life and happiness. If the loss of earthly riches vex thee so much, how should the loss of this divine treasure perplex thee much more?
1 The Felicitie lost was first the fruition of the Image of God, whereby the soule was