A17410:495
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. In not trusting our selves too far with them, not believing every word, not bearing our selves upon every show of favour from them. For as too much suspicion of them breeds extreme alienation, if they perceive it: so credulity is no way safe: Pro. 14. 15. John 2. 24.
1. In not trusting our selues too farre with them, not beleeuing euery word, not bearing our selues vpon euery shew of fauour from them. For as too much suspition of them breeds extreame alienation, if they perceiue it: so credulitie is no way safe: Pro. 14. 15. Iohn 2. 24.
2. By abstaining from judging of them that are without. It is a most intemperate zeal, that spends it self in the vain and bootless censure of the estate of those that are without. Those censures have in them matter ⟨p. 252⟩of provocation, and nothing of edification. It were happy for some Christians, if they could with the Apostle say often to their own souls, What have I to do to judge them, that are without? 1. Cor. 5. 12, 13.
2. By abstaining from iudging of them that are without. It is a most intemperate zeale, that spends it selfe in the vaine and bootelesse censure of the estate of those that are without. Those censures haue in them matter ⟨p. 252⟩of prouocation, and nothing of edification. It were happie for some Christians, if they could with the Apostle say often to their owne soules, What haue I to doe to iudge them, that are without?