A17410:250
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.
Now for the attainment of the joying in God.
Now for the attainement of the ioying in God.
1. We must mourn often for our disabilities herein,1 & pray to God to form this delight in us.
1. VVee must mourne often for our disabilities herein,1 & pray to God to forme this delight in vs.
- 1What we must do that we might be able to joy in God.What wee must doe that wee might bee able to ioy in God.
2. We must restrain carnal joys, and cares: for the excess of both doth exceedingly dull the heart, ⟨p. 130⟩and with-draws it from care of delight in God, Joh. 2. 8. Phil. 4. 4, 5, 6.
2. VVee must restraine carnall ioyes, and cares: for the excesse of both doth exceedingly dull the heart, ⟨p. 130⟩and with-drawes it from care of delight in God,