A17410:531
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,1 Suites in Law; A Christian must have many considerations of his cause, before it can be lawful for him to go to law with his brother; These kinds of contentions are ⟨p. 280⟩most unnatural amongst Christians, and prove not only scandalous in respect of others, but extremely grievous and poisonous to themselves, 1. Cor. 6. 1, 4.
First,1 Suites in Law; A Christian must haue many considerations of his cause, before it can be lawfull for him to goe to law with his brother; These kinds of contentions are ⟨p. 280⟩most vnnaturall amongst Christians, and proue not only scandalous in respect of others, but extreamely grieuous and poisonous to themselues, 1. Cor. 6. 1, 4.
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Secondly,1 Dissimulation: our love must be without feigning, in deed, and in truth, not in show, or in words, Rom. 12. 9. 1. John 3. 18.
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