The rules of a holy life. Or A treatise containing the holy order of…

And thou mayest be the more encouraged to study and practise these rules,¹ because thou hast the most ⟨p. 3⟩express & apparent word of God to warrant and require thy obedience herein.

And thou maist be the more encouraged to study and practise these rules,¹ because thou hast the most ⟨p. 3⟩expresse & apparant word of God to warrant and require thy obedience herein.

1. 1Thy warrant.

Be not so profane, as to think, that here is more to do then needs, or that I burden the lives of Christians with a multitude of unnecessary Precepts, and so make the way harder then it is: For I require thy obedience in nothing, thou hast not reason to be persuaded to be enjoined thee by the pure word of God; And thou must know, to the confusion of thy security; that he that will walk ⟨p. 4⟩safely, must walk by rule, Gal. 6. 16. He is yet in darkness, and walks on in darkness, and sees not what he doth, or whither he goeth, that doth not make the Word of God the light unto his feet, and the Lantern unto his paths: Psal. 119. There is a holy order of life commended in the godly, Col. 2. 5. and Gods promises are made to such as will dispose of their ways aright. A loose conversation is an ill conversation; and if ever we would see the salvation of God, we must be at the pains to dispose of our