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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.
Or thus.
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.
The Practise of Piety at Evening.
The Practise of Pietie at Euening.
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.