A05817:416
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.
2 Forget not how the holy ⟨p. 337⟩Ghost, puts it down as a special note of reprobates,1 They call not upon the Lord, 2They call not upon God. And when Eliphaz supposed that Job had cast off the fear of God, 3and that God had cast Job out of his favour; he chargeth him that he restrained prayer before God: making that a sure note of the one, and a sufficient cause of the other. On the other side, that GOD hath promised that whosoever shall call on his Name shall be saved. It is certain,4 that he who maketh no conscience of the duty of Prayer, hath no grace of the holy Spirit in him.5 For the spirit of Grace and of Prayer, are one, and therefore Grace and Prayer go together. But he that can ⟨p. 338⟩from a penitent heart, morning and evening pray unto GOD: it is sure, that he hath his measure of grace in this world: and he shall have his portion of glory in the life which is to come.
2 Forget not how the holy ⟨p. 337⟩Ghost, puts it downe as a speciall note of reprobates,1 They call not vpon the Lord, 2They call not vpon God. And when Eliphaz supposed that Iob had cast off the feare of God, 3and that God had cast Iob out of his fauour; hee chargeth him that hee restrained prayer before God: making that a sure note of the one, and a sufficient cause of the other. On the other side, that GOD hath promised that whosoeuer shall call on his Name shall be saued. It is certaine,