A17410:265
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. Secondly, we must come with all reverence & godly fear, Hebr. 12. 28. Psal. 2. 11.
2. Secondly, wee must come with all reuerence & godly feare, Hebr. 12. 28. Psal. 2. 11.
3. Thirdly, we must perform the service in repentance for our sins: we must not come before God in the love of any sin: if we do, we lose our labour, and God will loath our works, Isai. 1. Job. 11. 14. We must have clean hands, and a pure heart, or else no service of God will be accepted, Psalm. 119. 11. & 24. 4.
3. Thirdly, we must performe the seruice in repentance for our sinnes: wee must not come before God in the loue of any sin: if wee doe, we lose our labour, and God will loath our workes, Isai. 1. Iob. 11. 14. VVee must haue cleane hands, and a pure heart, or else no seruice of God will be accepted, Psalm. 119. 11. & 24. 4.