A17410:165
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.
CHAP. VI.
Rules, that order is about the manifestation of our love to God.
Rules, that order is about the manifestation of our loue to God.
Hitherto of the Rules that concern the knowledge of God, as the foundation of our love to God: The rules that should order us in the exercise of our love to God,1 follow; and those are of two sorts: 1. for either they concern the manifestation of our ⟨p. 96⟩love: 2. or our preservation in the love of God; we must show our love to God, and we must keep our selves in the love of God, Jude 21.
HItherto of the Rules that concerne the knowledge of God, as the foundation of our loue to God: The rules that should order vs in the exercise of our loue to God,1 follow; and those are of two sorts: 1. for either they concerne the manifestation of our ⟨p. 96⟩loue: 2. or our preseruation in the loue of God; wee must shew our loue to God, and we must keepe our selues in the loue of God,