A17410:116
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.
1.1 A resting in those forms of holiness and happiness which God hath prescribed, when a man desires no more to make him happy, then what God hath offered and given in Jesus Christ, 2. Corin. 11. 3. and when he accounts nothing to defile him, but what ⟨p. 71⟩God hath forbidden, and nothing needful to be done by him, but what God hath in his Word required.
1.1 A resting in those forms of holinesse and happinesse which God hath prescribed, when a man desires no more to make him happy, then what God hath offered and giuen in Iesus Christ, 2. Corin. 11. 3. and when he accounts nothing to defile him, but what ⟨p. 71⟩God hath forbidden, and nothing needfull to bee done by him, but what God hath in his Word required.
- 1Which is, 1. To rest upon the Word for the forms of holiness & happiness.Which is, 1. To rest vpon the Word for the formes of holines & happinesse.
2. A Dove-like innocency, 1and harmlessness, when the Christian shows a desire to be injurious to no man, but rather to seek the good of others, as well as his own, 1. Cor. 10. 24.