A17410:429
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.
1. First, be soft, show all meekness to all men, restraining the inordination of thy heart, endeavouring to show thy self gentle, and peaceable, and harmless, ⟨p. 218⟩and easy to be entreated, Tit. 3. 1, 2. Prou. 8. 13. Jam. 3. 13.
1. First, bee soft, shew all meekenesse to all men, restraining the inordination of thy heart, endeuouring to shew thy selfe gentle, and peaceable, and harmelesse, ⟨p. 218⟩and easie to be entreated, Tit. 3. 1, 2. Prou. 8. 13. Iam. 3. 13.
2. Secondly, thou must bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart to get knowledge, and profit thy self by others, Pro. 23. 17. This is the same with that of James, Be swift to hear, and slow to speak, I am. 3. 19.
2. Secondly, thou must bow downe thine eare, and heare the words of the wise, and apply thine heart to get knowledge, and profit thy selfe by others, Pro. 23. 17. This is the same with that of Iames, Bee swift to heare, and slow to speak, I am. 3. 19.