A05817:658
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.
The true manner of keeping holy the Lords day.
NOW the sanctifying of the Sabbath consists in two things. First, In resting from all servile and common business, pertaining to our natural life. Secondly, In consecrating that rest wholly to the service of God, and the use of those holy means which belong to our spiritual life.
NOW the sanctifying of the Sabbath consists in two things. First, In resting from all seruile and common businesse, pertaining to our naturall life. Secondly, In consecrating that rest wholy to the seruice of God, and the vse of those holy meanes which belong to our spirituall life.
For the first.
1 The servile and common works from which we are to cease, are generally all civill works, from the *least to the greatest: More particularly.
1 The seruile and common workes from which wee are to cease, are generally all ciuill workes, from the