A17410:189
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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6. By honouring them that fear his name, and are begotten ⟨p. 105⟩of him, and bear his Image, receiving them, & making much of them, and defending them for the love we bear to God himself, Psalm. 15. 1. Joh. 5. 1.
6. By honoring them that feare his name, and are begotten ⟨p. 105⟩of him, and beare his Image, receiuing them, & making much of them, and defending them for the loue we beare to God himselfe, Psalm. 15. 1. Ioh. 5. 1.
7. By hating them that are his enemies, as if they were our own, conceiving more dislike of them for dishonouring God, then for any wrongs they could do unto us, Psal. 139. 21, 22.
7. By hating them that are his enemies, as if they were our own, conceiuing more dislike of them for dishonouring God, then for any wrongs they could do vnto vs, Psal. 139. 21, 22.
8. We honour God, when we speak of the Oracles of God with a reverence as may become the nature and glory of them, Commandment 3.