The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…

4. Without wavering or ⟨p. 67⟩uncertainty. ¹It is uncertain running the Apostle impliedly forbids, 1. Cor. 9. 25. Our life is like a race: Now in a race it is not enough that a man run now and then, though he run fiercely for the time: He must not trifle & look behind, and stand still at his pleasure, and then run again, but he must be always running: so ought it to be with us in the race of godliness. It will not serve the turn to be good by fits, and to be forward in good things only at some times, and then be careless, and off the hooks, as we ⟨p. 68⟩say, at other times.

4. Without wauering or ⟨p. 67⟩vncertainty. ¹It is vncertaine running the Apostle implyedly forbids, 1. Cor. 9. 25. Our life is like a race: Now in a race it is not enough that a man runne now and then, though he runne fiercely for the time: He must not trifle & looke behinde, and stand still at his pleasure, and then run againe, but he must be alwaies running: so ought it to be with vs in the race of godlinesse. It will not serue the turne to bee good by fits, and to bee forward in good things onely at some times, and then be careles, and off the hookes, as wee ⟨p. 68⟩say, at other times.

1. 14. Without wavering.4. Without wauering.