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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.
Blessed be thy holy name O Lord our GOD, for these thy good benefits, wherewith thou hast so plentifully at this time refreshed our bodies; O Lord vouchsafe likewise to feed our souls, with the spiritual food• of thy holy Word and spirit ⟨p. 462⟩unto life everlasting. Lord defend and save thy whole Church: our gracious King, & Queen, our Noble Prince, the Prince Palatine of Rhene, and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife: Forgive us our sins, and unthankfulness, pass by our manifold infirmities, make us all mindful of our last ends, and of the reckoning that we are to make to thee therein. And in the mean, while grant unto us health, peace, and truth, in Jesus Christ our Lord, and only Saviour.
BLessed be thy holy name O Lord our GOD, for these thy good benefits, wherewith thou hast so plentifully at this time refreshed our bodies; O Lord vouchsafe likewise to feede our soules, with the spirituall food• of thy holy Word and spirit ⟨p. 462⟩vnto life euerlasting. Lord defend and saue thy vvhole Church: our gracious King, & Queene, our Noble Prince, the Prince Palatine of Rhene, and the Lady Elizabeth his Wife: Forgiue vs our sinnes, and vnthankefulnesse, passe by our manifold infirmities, make vs all mindfull of our last ends, and of the reckoning that wee are to make to thee therein. And in the meane, while grant vnto vs health, peace, and truth, in Iesus Christ our Lord, and onely Sauiour.
Blessed be thy holy name (O Lord) for these thy good benefits, wherewith thou hast refreshed us at this time. Lord, forgive us all ⟨p. 463⟩our sins and frailties, save & defend thy whole Church, our King, Queen, and royal posterity, and grant us health, peace, and truth in Christ our only Saviour. Amen.
BLessed be thy holy name (O Lord) for these thy good benefits, vvherewith thou hast refreshed vs at this time. Lord, forgiue vs all ⟨p. 463⟩our sinnes and frailties, saue & defend thy whole Church, our King, Queene, and royall posteritie, and grant vs health, peace, and truth in Christ our onely Sauiour. Amen.
WE give thee thanks (O heavenly Father, for feeding our bodies so graciously with thy good Creatures, to this temporal life: beseeching thee likewise to feed our souls with thy holy Word unto life everlasting. Defend (O Lord) thine universal Church, the King, Queen, and their royal Posterity, and grant us continuance of thy grace and mercy in Christ our only Saviour. Amen.
WE giue thee thanks (O heauenly Father, for feeding our bodies so gratiously with thy good Creatures, to this temporall life: beseeching thee likewise to feede our soules with thy holy Word vnto life euerlasting. Defend (O Lord) thine vniuersall Church, the King, Queene, and their royall Posteritie, and graunt vs continuance of thy grace and mercy in Christ our onely Sauiour. Amen.
At evening when the due time of repairing to rest approacheth, call together again all thy Family. Read a Chapter in the same manner that was prescribed in the morning. Then (in the holy imitation of our Lord and his Disciples) sing a Psalm. But in singing of Psalms either after Supper, or at any other time, observe these Rules.
At euening when the due time of repairing to rest approacheth, call together againe all thy Family. Reade a Chapter in the same manner that was prescribed in the morning. Then (in the holy imitation of our Lord and his Disciples) sing a Psalme. But in singing of Psalmes eyther after Supper, or at any other time, obserue these Rules.
1 Beware of singing divine Psalms for an ⟨p. 465⟩ordinary recreation; as do men of impure spirits, who sing holy Psalms intermingled with profane Ballads. They are Gods word, take them not in thy mouth in vain.
1 BEware of singing diuine Psalmes for an ⟨p. 465⟩ordinary recreation; as doe men of impure spirits, vvho sing holy Psalmes intermingled with prophane Ballads. They are Gods word, take them not in thy mouth in vaine.
4 As you sing uncover your heads,1 and behave your selves in comely reverence, as in the sight of God, singing to God, in Gods own words. But be sure that the matter makes more melody in your hearts, 2then the Music in your ears: for ⟨p. 466⟩the singing with a grace in our hearts, is that which the Lord is delighted withal, according to that olde verse: Non vox, sed votum, non musica chordula, sed cor: Non clamans, sed amans, psallit in aure Dei. T'is not the voice, but vow: Sound hart, not sounding string: True zeal, not outward show, That in Gods ear doth ring.
4 As you sing vncouer your heads,1 and behaue your selues in comely reuerence, as in the sight of God, singing to God, in Gods owne words. But be sure that the matter makes more melodie in your hearts, 2then the Musicke in your eares: for ⟨p. 466⟩the singing with a grace in our hearts, is that which the Lord is delighted withall, according to that olde verse: Non vox, sed votum, non musica chordula, sed cor: Non clamans, sed amans, psallit in aure Dei. T'is not the voyce, but vow: Sound hart, not sounding string: True zeale, not outward show, That in Gods eare doth ring.
