A17410:107
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…
The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our lives, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selves. With general rules of preparation, that concern either the helps, or the manner of a holy conversation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of our liues, prescribed in the Scripture concerning our carriage: towards God, towards men, towards our selues. With generall rules of preparation, that concerne either the helps, or the maner of a holy conuersation. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by George for Ralph Rounthwaite, 1619
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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. Without weariness: 1It is required as a thing necessary to the manner of well-doing, that we be not weary of it, and that we faint not, Gal. 6. 9. This we must strive for by prayer.
1. Without wearinesse: 1It is required as a thing necessary to the manner of well-doing, that we be not weary of it, and that wee faint not, Gal. 6. 9. This we must striue for by prayer.
- 11. Without weariness.1. Without wearines.
2. Without discouragement: 1we must lift up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight steppes to our feet. How much hinderance to well-doing, discouragement is, may appear by the similitude: feeble knees will dispatch but a little space of the journey, and hands that hang down, are not fit for work: great is the hinderance comes to many by their discouragements and aptness thereunto, which ariseth usually from pride, & the dregs of worldly sorrow, and ought much to be resisted by true ⟨p. 66⟩Christians, Hebr. 12. 12, 13. Josh. 1. 6, 7.
2. Without discouragement: