A17410:555
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.
This of thy carriage to ⟨p. 292⟩such as are fallen from God.
As for those,1 that are fallen from thee, by trespassing against thee, thou must observe these rules of carriage towards them.
As for those,1 that are fallen from thee, by trespassing against thee, thou must obserue these rules of carriage towards them.
- 1How we must carry our selves towards such as trespass against us.How we must carry our selues towards such as trespasse against vs.
First, in slighter wrongs do all things without reasonings, or murmurings: either speak not of it, or so, as thou show no repining, or vexation about it, Phil. 2. 14. Secondly, in great wrongs, thou must do two things:
First, in slighter wrongs doe all things vvithout reasonings, or murmurings: either speake not of it, or so, as thou shew no repining, or vexation about it, Phil. 2. 14. Secondly, in great wrongs, thou must doe two things: