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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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CHAP. I.
Containing the Preface, which shows the drift, warrant, profit, and use of the ensuing Treatise.
Containing the Preface, which shewes the drift, warrant, profit, and vse of the ensuing Treatise.
THE only thing intended in this Treatise is,1 to collect for thy use (Christian Reader) those directions scattered here & there in the Scriptures, ⟨p. 2⟩which may, through out the whole course of thy life, tell thee, what thou must do in the right order of thy conversation: How thou shouldst behave thy self toward God, and how thou shouldst carry thy self toward men, in all the occasions of thy life: In company, out of company: In all duties either of righteousness or mercy: and how thou shouldst dispose of thy self in affliction, and out of affliction, at all times.
THE onely thing intended in this Treatise is,1 to collect for thy vse (Christian Reader) those directions scattered here & there in the Scriptures, ⟨p. 2⟩which may, through out the whole course of thy life, tell thee, what thou must do in the right order of thy conuersation: How thou shouldst behaue thy selfe toward God, and how thou shouldst carry thy selfe toward men, in all the occasions of thy life: In company, out of company: In all duties either of righteousnesse or mercy: and how thou shouldst dispose of thy selfe in affliction, and out of affliction, at all times.