A05817:666
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.
Thirdly, from keeping of Fairs •r Markets, which for the most part God punisheth with pestilence, fire, and strange floods.
Thirdly, from keeping of Fayres •r Markets, which for the most part God punisheth with pestilence, fire, and strange flouds.
Fourthly, from studying any books, or science, but the holy Scriptures, & Divinity. For our study must be, to be ravished in spirit upon the Lords day. In a word,1 Thou must on that day cease in thy calling to do thy work: that the Lord by his calling, ⟨p. 566⟩may do his work in thee. For whatsoever is gotten by common working on this day, shall never be blessed of the Lord: but it will prove like Achans gold, which being got contrary to the Lords commandment, brought the fire of Gods curse, upon all the rest which he had lawfully gotten. And if Christ scourged them out as thieves, who bought and sold in his Temple; (which was but a ceremony shortly to be abrogated:) is it to be thought, that he will ever suffer those to escape unpunished, who contrary to his commandment buy and sell on the Sabbath day, which is his perpetual law? Christ calleth such sacrilegious ⟨p. 567⟩Thieves; and as well may they steal the Communion C•p from the Lords Table: as steal from GOD, the chiefest part of the Lords day, to consume it in their own lasts. Such shall one day find, the Judgements of God, heavier then the opinions of men.
Fourthly, from studying any books, or science, but the holy Scriptures, & Diuinity. For our studie must be, to bee rauished in spirit vpon the Lords day. In a word,1