A17410:178
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.
2. When we nourish the motions of the Spirit, and ⟨p. 101⟩retire our selves of purpose to entertain them.
2. When wee nourish the motions of the Spirit, and ⟨p. 101⟩retire our selues of purpose to entertaine them.
3. When we daily have recourse to those means by which the Lord is pleased to converse with men, and not rest in the bare use of the means, but strive to find out the Lord in his holy presence, in every ordinance of his, Psal. 63. 1, 2.
3. When we daily haue recourse to those meanes by which the Lord is pleased to conuerse with men, and not rest in the bare vse of the meanes, but striue to finde out the Lord in his holy presence, in euery ordinance of his, Psal. 63. 1, 2.
4. When we use our selves to Soliloquies with God, taking all occasions to speak to God by prayer and private meditation of things offered to us, out of which we could extract matter for frequent Ciaculations, lifting up our hearts ⟨p. 102⟩upon the very first motions of good unto God, Psalm. 63. 5, 6.