A17410:149
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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4.1 It may yet help thy understanding to conceive, that God is in Christ, and the fullness of the God-head dwells in him bodily: and therefore when thou comest to worship, thou mayest set before thy mind the Humane Nature of Christ, adoring the God-head in him, as conceiving of God in that humane Nature thou thinkest of, ⟨p. 88⟩Col. 2. 9. Joh. 17. 3.
4.1 It may yet helpe thy vnderstanding to conceiue, that God is in Christ, and the fulnesse of the God-head dwels in him bodily: and therefore when thou commest to worship, thou maist set before thy minde the Humane Nature of Christ, adoring the God-head in him, as conceiuing of God in that humane Nature thou thinkest of, ⟨p. 88⟩Col. 2. 9. Ioh. 17. 3.
- 14. Thou mayest conceive of God in the Humane Nature of Christ.4. Thou maist conceiue of God in the Humane Nature of Christ.
51 That this may be the more clearly and comfortably done, thou must labour by sound advice and direction, to expel out of thy head those secret and rebellious Atheistical thoughts, which arise in thee about his Nature, Decree, Attributes, or Works: Men must take heed of smothering these Objections, but seek help against them in time.