A05817:380
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.
How a private man must begin the morning with Piety.
How a priuate man must beginne the morning with Pietie.
AS soon as ever thou awakest in the morning, keep the door of thy heart fast shut, that no earthly thought may enter, before that GOD be come in first, and let him before all others, have the *first place therein. So all evil thoughts, either will not dare to come in; or shall the easier be kept out: and the heart vvill more savour of Piety and godliness all the day after. But if thy heart be not at thy first waking, filled with some meditations of GOD, and his Word, and ⟨p. 301⟩dressed like the Lamp in the Tabernacle every morning and evening,2 with the oil Olive, of Gods word, and perfumed with the sweet incense of prayer. 3Satan vvill attempt to fill it with worldly cares, or fleshly desires, so that it vvill grow unfit for the service of God: all the day after sending forth nothing but the stench of corrupt and lying words, and of rash and blasphemous oaths.
AS soone as euer thou awakest in the morning, keepe the doore of thy heart fast shut, that no earthly thought may enter, before that GOD be come in first, and let him before all others, haue the *first place therein. So all euill thoughts, either will not dare to come in; or shall the easier be kept out: and the heart vvill more sauour of Pietie and godlinesse all the day after. But if thy heart be not at thy first waking, filled with some meditations of GOD, and his Word, and