A05817:288
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.
3 Of the Prerogatives which the Elect shall enjoy in Heaven.
3 Of the Prerogatiues which the Elect shall enioy in Heauen.
BY reason of this communion with GOD, the elect in Heaven shall have four super-excellent prerogatives.
BY reason of this communion with GOD, the elect in Heauen shall haue foure super-excellent prerogatiues.
1 They shall have the Kingdom of heaven for their inheritance:1 and they shall be free Denizens of the heavenly Jerusalem. S. Paul (by being a free citizen of Rome) escaped whipping; but they,2 who are once free Citizens of the heavenly Jerusalem, shall ever be freed from the whips of eternal torments. For this freedom was bought for us, not with a great sum of money, 3but with the precious blood of the Son of God.4
1 They shall haue the Kingdome of heauen for their inheritance: