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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.
THE PRACTISE OF PIETIE.
Directing a CHRISTIAN how to walk, that he may please GOD.
Directing a CHRISTIAN how to walke, that hee may please GOD.
Who ever thou art, that lookest into this Book, never undertake to read it: unless thou first resolvest to become from thy heart, an unfeigned Practitioner of Piety. Yet read it, and that speedily: least before thou hast read it over, God (by some unexpected death) cut thee off, for thine inveterate Impiety.
WHo euer thou art, that lookest into this Booke, neuer vndertake to read it: vnlesse thou first resoluest to become from thy heart, an vnfained Practitioner of Pietie. Yet reade it, and that speedily: least before thou hast read it ouer, God (by some vnexpected death) cut thee off, for thine inueterate Impietie.
The practise of Piety consists 1 In knowing 1 The essence of God, & that, in respect of 1 The divers manner of being therein, which are 3. persons 1 Father. 2 Sonne. 3 H. Ghost. 2 The Attributes thereof, which are, either, Nominal: or, Real, 1 Absolute, 1 Simpleness. 2 Infiniteness. 2 Relative, 1 Life. 2 Understanding. 3 Will. 4 Power 5 Majesty. 2 Thy own self, in respect of thy state of 1 Corruption. 2 Renovation. 2 In glorifying God aright, 1 By thy life, in dedicating thy self devoutly to serve him. Ordinarily, 1 Privately in thine own person. 2 Publicly, 1 With thy family every day. 2 With the Church on the Sabbath day. Extraordinarily, by Fasting. Feasting. 2 By thy death in dying 1 In the Lord. 2 For the Lord.