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The Practice of Piety

Name: The Practice of Piety
Author: Lewis Bayly

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.

Lewis Bayly d. 1631London: printed for John Hodgets, 1613London: printed for Iohn Hodgets, 1613

[36], 1031, [1] p. · 116k words · STC 1602 · ESTC S1173

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THE PRACTISE OF PIETY. › Meditations of the misery of a Man, not reconciled to GOD in Christ. › Meditations of the misery, of the body and soul in death.THE PRACTISE OF PIETIE. › Meditations of the misery of a Man, not reconciled to GOD in Christ. › Meditations of the misery, of the body and soule in death.

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:175p. 95–96

Now the miserable Soul sensibly perceiveth her earthly body to begin to dye: for as towards the dissolution of the universal frame of the great world; the Sun shall be turned into darkness, the Moon into blood, and the Stars shall fall from heaven: the Air shall be full of storms, & flashing Meteors, the Earth shall tremble, and the Sea shall roar, and mens hearts shall fail for fear, expecting the end of such sorrowful beginnings: So towards the dissolution of man, ⟨p. 96⟩(which is the little world) his Eyes, which are as the Sun and Moon lose their light, and see nothing but blood-guiltiness of sin: the rest of the Senses, as lesser Stars, do one after another fail and fall: his Mind, Reason, and Memory, as heavenly powers of his Soul, are shaken with fearful storms of despair, and first flashings of Hell-fire: his earthly body begins to shake and tremble, and the humours like an over-flowing Sea roar and rattle in his throat, still expecting the woeful ends of these dreadful beginnings.

Now the miserable Soule sensibly perceiueth her earthly body to beginne to dye: for as towards the dissolution of the vniuersall frame of the great world; the Sunne shall be turned into darknesse, the Moone into bloud, and the Stars shall fall from heauen: the Ayre shall be full of stormes, & flashing Meteors, the Erath shall tremble, and the Sea shall roare, and mens hearts shall faile for feare, expecting the end of such sorrowfull beginnings: So towards the dissolution of man, ⟨p. 96⟩(which is the little world) his Eyes, which are as the Sunne and Moone lose their light, and see nothing but bloud-guiltinesse of sinne: the rest of the Senses, as lesser Starres, doe one after another faile and fall: his Minde, Reason, and Memorie, as heauenly powers of his Soule, are shaken with fearefull stormes of despaire, and first flashings of Hell-fire: his earthly body beginnes to shake and tremble, and the humours like an ouer-flowing Sea roare and rattle in his throate, still expecting the wofull ends of these dreadfull beginnings.

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The Practice of Piety

Meditations of the misery of a man after death, which is the fullness of Cursedness.

Meditations of the misery of a man after death, which is the fulnesse of Cursednesse.

Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

Meditations of the misery of a man after death, which is the fullness of Cursedness.

Meditations of the misery of a man after death, which is the fulnesse of Cursednesse.