A17410:464
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.
First, in helping others, without exalting our selves, and domineering over them. The rich must not think to rule the poor, and to command them, as if they were their vassals: we should so show mercy, as not to stand upon terms of their beholdingnesse, to whom we show mercy, Prou. 22. 7.
First, in helping others, without exalting our selues, and dominiering ouer them. The rich must not thinke to rule the poore, and to command them, as if they were their vassals: we should so shew mercy, as not to stand vpon tearmes of their beholdingnesse, to whom wee shew mercie, Prou. 22. 7.
Secondly, in not despising ⟨p. 236⟩the poor; we must no• think of them meanly, and contemptuously, because they stand in need of our help, whether it be in body or mind, Prou. 14. 21.
Secondly, in not despising ⟨p. 236⟩the poore; we must no• thinke of them meanely, and contemptuously, because they stand in neede of our help, whether it be in bodie or minde, Prou. 14. 21.