A17410:508
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. XXV.
Rules that show us how to carry our selves towards godly men.
Rules that shew vs how to carry our selues towards godly men.
Thus of our carriage toward the wicked: how we should carry our selves toward the godly, followeth to be considered of:
THus of our carriage toward the wicked: how we should carry our selues toward the godly, followeth to bee considered of:
The sum of all is, that we must walk in love: If we can soundly discharge our duty to the ⟨p. 261⟩godly, in respect of loving them unfeignedly & heartily, and constantly, we perform all that is required of us toward them: And this love to the godly is so necessary, as that it is imposed upon us, as the only Commandment given by Christ, who in one word tells us the substance of our duties,