A17410:336
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.
The Rules concerning prayer follow;1 where besides the general Rules, that belong to all worship, these things in special must be heeded concerning prayer.
The Rules concerning prayer follow;1 where besides the generall Rules, that belong to all worship, these things in speciall must bee heeded concerning prayer.
- 1Rules about prayer.
1. Thy words must be few, 1Eccles. 5. 1, 2. and the ⟨p. 172⟩reason is, because God is in heaven, and thou art in earth: He is full of Majesty and Wisdom, and thou art an infirm and sinful creature: Length of it self doth not commend prayer; we must speak as becomes the Majesty of God, without vain repetitions and babblings, pattering over of the same things is not pleasing to God: As affectation is ill in any thing, so much more ill in prayer. This Rule may be unsavoury in the taste of some that are transported with rash zeal: But let them take heed of ⟨p. 173⟩will-worship: the words are so plain in the Text, as they must inform themselves about them: The Lord knew what was fittest for us, when he gave us this charge.
1. Thy words must bee few, 1