A17410:327
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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1. First,1 Examination, 1. Cor. 11. we must examine our selves, and so eat and drink: Examine our selves, so as we be sure there be no sin in our hearts and lives, which we have committed, but we are desirous to forsake, and do unfeignedly judge our selves for it, being as desirous to forsake it, as we desire God should in the Sacrament forgive it.
1. First,1 Examination, 1. Cor. 11. we must examine our selues, and so eate and drinke: Examine our selues, so as wee be sure there bee no sinne in our hearts and liues, which we haue committed, but wee are desirous to forsake, and do vnfaignedly iudge our selues for it, being as desirous to forsake it, as we desire God should in the Sacrament forgiue it.
- 11. We must examine our selves.1. Wee must examine our selues.
2. Secondly, The discerning ⟨p. 168⟩of the Lords Body and Blood: 1so coming to partake of these outward signs of Bread & Wine, as we withal know and believe the presence of Christ; and that God doth as effectually give Christ to the soul of the believer, as he gives Bread and Wine to his body: yea, we must thus discern and believe, that he is there offered and given unto us also, and that God doth not delude us, but as truly gives us the Body and blood of Christ, as he doth by the Minister give us the bread and wine,