A17410:144
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
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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.
All the rules that concerne ⟨p. 83⟩our duties to GOD, may bee cast into two heads: 1. For they concerne eyther the loue of God, or 2. the seruice of God. This is an exact diuision; for all wee owe to God, is fitly comprehended in these two, Loue and Seruice: and the Scripture so diuides in these and the like places, Commandement 2. Deut. 11. 23. & 30. 16. Iosh. 22. 5. Esay 56. 6.
Now that we may be rightly ordered in respect of our love to God, we must consider of his love, either in the foundation of it, or in the exercise of it. ⟨p. 84⟩The foundation of our love to God, is the true knowledge of God, 2. Chron. 28. 6. So that in the first place we must soundly inform our selves concerning this knowledge of God.