A05817:664
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.
First, from all the works of our calling, though it were reaping in the time of harvest.1
First, from all the workes of our calling, though it were reaping in the time of haruest.1
- 1Exod. 31.15 &c. Exod. 34.21 Nehe. 13.15 Jer. 17.21.22.27.Exod. 31.15 &c. Exod. 34.21 Nehe. 13.15 Ier. 17.21.22.27.
Secondly, from carrying burdens, as Carriers do: or riding abroad for profit, or for pleasure: GOD hath commanded that the beasts should rest on the Sabbath day, because all occasion of travailing or labouring with them should be cut off from man. GOD gives them that day a rest▪ and he that,1 without necessity, deprives them of their rest on the Lords day: the groans ⟨p. 565⟩of the poor tired beasts, shall in the day of the Lord rise up in Judgement against him.2 Likewise such as spend the greatest part of this day, in trimming, painting, and pampering of themselves, like Jezebels,