A05817:980
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.
1 Meditate, that God useth this chastisement of thy body, but as a Medicine to cure thy soul, by drawing thee (who art sick in sin) to come by repentance unto Christ (thy Physician) to have thy soul healed.1
1 Meditate, that God vseth this chastisement of thy body, but as a Medicine to cure thy soule, by drawing thee (who art sicke in sin) to come by repentance vnto Christ (thy Physitian) to haue thy soule healed.1
2 That the sorest sickness or painfullest disease, which thou canst endure, is nothing, ⟨p. 857⟩if it be compared to those dolours and pains which Jesus Christ thy Saviour hath suffered for thee:1 when in a bloody sweat, he endured the wrath of God, the pains of hell▪ and a cursed death which was due to thy sins. Justly therefore may he use those words of Jeremiah, Behold and see, 2if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, 3wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath. Hath the son of God endured so much for thy redemption; and wilt not thou a sinful man, endure a little sickness for his pleasure? especially when it is for thy good?