A17410:447
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.
CHAP. XXII.
How we must carry our selves out of company.
How wee must carrie our selues out of company.
Thus of thy carriage in general in company. Now out of company thou must look to these things:
THus of thy carryage in generall in company. Now out of company thou must looke to these things:
1. First, thou must fashion thy heart,1 by the use of all good means, to the love of all sorts of men. This [Greek or Hebrew], love of me•, is a virtue little thought on: yet greatly necessary, as a foundation ⟨p. 230⟩of all practices in conversing with others, and we should labour to abound in love towards all men,