A05817:542
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.
4 Meditate, that seeing thou hast so many pledges of Gods fatherly bounty, 1goodness, and mercy towards thee, as there are dishes of meat on thy Table: Oh suffer not in such a place, so gracious a God, to be abused by scurrility, ribaldry, or swearing: ⟨p. 454⟩or thy *fellow brother, by disgraceful backbiting, taunting or slandering.
4 Meditate, that seeing thou hast so many pledges of Gods fatherly bounty, 1goodnesse, and mercy towards thee, as there are dishes of meat on thy Table: Oh suffer not in such a place, so gracious a God, to be abused by scurrilitie, ribauldry, or swearing: ⟨p. 454⟩or thy *fellow brother, by disgracefull backebiting, taunting or slandering.
- 1Hanc ob caeusam Gentiles mensas sacra & festa nominabant. Vives.Hanc ob caeusam Gentiles mensas sacra & festa nominabant. Viues.
- *Saint Austen had written over his table. Quisquis amat dictis absentûm rodere samam, hanc mensam vetitam noverit esse sibi. Possid. de vita Aug.Saint Austen had writen ouer his table. Quisquis amat dictis absentûm rodere samam, hanc mensam vetitam nouerit esse sibi. Possid. de vita Aug.