A17410:522
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.
Thus of the Rules that concern the manifestation of our love to the godly: Now there are further divers things to be observed for the preservation of our love to them: and these may be cast into two heads: for, they are either such things as we must do; or, such things as we must avoid.
THus of the Rules that concerne the manifestation of our loue to the godly: Now there are further diuers things to bee obserued for the preseruation of our loue to them: and these may bee cast into two heads: for, they are either such things as wee must doe; or, such things as wee must auoide.
The things that we must ⟨p. 272⟩do to preserve love are these.1
The things that we must ⟨p. 272⟩do to preserue loue are these.1
- 1What we must do to preserve our love to the godly. We must labour to be of one judgment with themWhat wee must do to preseru• our loue to the godly. Wee must labour to be of one iudgment with them
First, we must strive to be like minded in matters of opinion; many discords or abatements of affection grow among Christians for their differences of opinion in divers things. It is true, that difference of Judgement should not cause difference in affection: If we cannot be of one mind, yet we should be of one heart; yet we see the contrary, and therefore every Christian should make conscience of it, to be so wary and so humble in his opinions,