A05817:696
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.
Be not therefore in the School of Christ, like an idle boy in a Grammar school, that often heareth, but never learneth his lesson: and still goeth to School, but profiteth nothing. Thou hatest it in a child; Christ detesteth it in thee. To the end ⟨p. 597⟩therefore, that thou mayest the better profit by hearing, mark:
Be not therefore in the Schoole of Christ, like an idle boy in a Grammar schoole, that often heareth, but neuer learneth his lesson: and still goeth to Schoole, but profiteth nothing. Thou hatest it in a childe; Christ detesteth it in thee. To the end ⟨p. 597⟩therefore, that thou maiest the better profit by hearing, marke:
1 The coherence and explication of the Text.
2 The chief sum or scope of the holy Ghost in that Text.
2 The chiefe summe or scope of the holy Ghost in that Text.