A17410:285
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.
4. By making haste to Gods worship, going to the house of God with the first, & with willing hearts, with a holy thirst after the means, flocking and flying thither as the clouds, or as so many doves to their windows, Zach. 8. 21. Psal. 110. 3. Isaiah 35. 1. & 60. 8.
4. By making haste to Gods worship, going to the house of God with the first, & with willing hearts, with a holy thirst after the meanes, flocking and flying thither as the clouds, or as so many doues to their windowes, Zach. 8. 21. Psal. 110. 3. Esay 35. 1. & 60. 8.
5. By forwardness and cheerfulness in contributing towards the maintenance of Gods House, and ⟨p. 143⟩service in the means thereof, Isaiah 60. 8, 9.
5. By forwardnes and cheerefulnesse in contributing towards the maintenance of Gods House, and ⟨p. 143⟩seruice in the means thereof, Isaiah 60. 8, 9.
6. By grieving heartily, because other men neglect or contemn the House of God, and have no more mind to keep Gods Law,