A17410:143
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.
Hitherto of the general rules:1 The particular rules that concern the right ordering of our conversation, may be cast into three heads, as they direct us in our carriage, 1. Towards God. 2. Towards men. 3. Towards our selves.2
HItherto of the generall rules:1 The particular rules that concerne the right ordering of our conuersation, may be cast into three heads, as they direct vs in our carriage, 1. Towards God. 2. Towards men. 3. Towards our selues.2
- 1The division of the particular rules.The diuision of the particular rules.
- 2The subdivision.The subdiuision.
All the rules that concern ⟨p. 83⟩our duties to GOD, may be cast into two heads: 1. For they concern either the love of God, or 2. the service of God. This is an exact division; for all we owe to God, is fitly comprehended in these two, Love and Service: and the Scripture so divides in these and the like places, Commandment 2. Deut. 11. 23. & 30. 16. Josh. 22. 5. Isaiah 56. 6.