A17410:260
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.
Containing general rules about Gods service.
Containing generall rules about Gods seruice.
Hitherto of the first sort of Rules, that concern our carriage toward God, namely, those that concern our love to God. Now the second sort of Rules follow, and that is,1 those that concern the service of God, and these may be cast into two ranks: 1. for they either concern the parts of Gods worship: 2. or the time of Gods worship.
HItherto of the first sort of Rules, that concerne our carriage toward God, namely, those that concerne our loue to God. Now the second sort of Rules follow, and that is,1 those that concerne the seruice of God, and these may be cast into two rankes: 1. for they either concerne the parts of Gods worship: 2. or the time of Gods worship.
- 1Rules about the service of God.Rules about the s•ruice of God.
The Rules that concern ⟨p. 131⟩the parts of Gods worship, 1. are either general, which bind us to the good behaviour in all parts of Gods worship: 2. or else certain specialties of Direction, that concern some part of Gods worship only.