A17410:340
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.
2. Freedom from distractions: Thy heart must be cleansed from passions and lusts: Thy prayer must be without wrath, 1. Tim. 3. 8. And as the distractions arising from passion must be avoided, so must a•l other distractions.
2. Freedome from distractions: Thy heart must be cleansed from passions and lusts: Thy prayer must be without wrath, 1. Tim. 3. 8. And as the distractions arising from passion must bee auoided, so must a•l other distractions.
3. Fervency, or the stretching out of the affections according to the matter of prayer; thou must express the affections of prayer: for God looks at the prayer of thy heart, not at the prayer of thy lips only.
3. Feruency, or the stretching out of the affections according to the matter of prayer; thou must expresse the affections of prayer: for God looks at the prayer of thy heart, not at the prayer of thy lippes onely.
3. Thou must pray with all manner of prayer, 1according to the occasions of ⟨p. 175⟩prayer: Thou must pray at thy set times daily, and thou must pray also with ejaculations (as Divines call them) that is, those sudden and short speeches to God, when thy heart is moved upon special occasion: Thou must use Supplications, Deprecations, Intercessions, Confessions, giving of Thanks, or the like, according to thy necessities, or the other occasions of thy life: Thou must strive to get a fitness and language to speak unto God for thy self in thine own words, as may best express the desires of thine hart,