A05817:471
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.
Look to your selves what conscience ye have, For conscience shall damn, and conscience shall save.
Looke to your selues what conscience ye haue, For conscience shall damne, and conscience shall saue.
4 Love all good things for Gods sake:1 but God for his own sake. Whilst thou holdest GOD thy friend, thou needest not fear who is thine enemy:2 for either God will make thine enemy to become thy friend, or will bridle him that he cannot hurt thee. No man is overthrown by his enemy, unless that first his sin have prevailed over him, and God hath left him to himself. He that ⟨p. 385⟩would therefore be safe from the fear of his enemies, and live still in the favour of his God: let him redeem the folly of the time past with serious Repentance: look to the time present with religious diligence, and take heed to the time to come with careful providence.3
4 Loue all good things for Gods sake:1 but God for his owne sake. Whilest thou holdest GOD thy friend, thou needest not feare who is thine enemy:2 for either God will make thine enemy to become thy friend, or will bridle him that hee cannot hurt thee. No man is ouerthrown by his enemy, vnlesse that first his sinne haue preuailed ouer him, and God hath left him to himselfe. Hee that ⟨p. 385⟩would therefore be safe from the feare of his enemies, and liue still in the fauour of his God: let him redeem the folly of the time past with serious Repentance: looke to the time present with religious diligēce, and take heede to the time to come with carefull prouidence.