A17410:63
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
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Fourthly,1 he must bring a mind full of care & desire, and resolution to practise the rules, when he hath learned them: he must as the phrase is, observe to do Gods will, Deut. 5. 32. He must be watchful and diligent, he must ponder upon the ways of God, bewaring lest he either neglect or forget to do them, Deut. 6. 17. & 31. 46. & 8. 11. 1. Corin. 16. 13. Prou. 4. 26. ⟨p. 28⟩we must follow after righteousness, 1. Tim. 6. 11. and bind directions as signs upon our hands, &c. Deut. 8. 28. If we could be thus awakened, this rule would breed us unspeakable good in our conversation.
Fourthly,1 he must bring a minde full of care & desire, and resolution to practise the rules, when hee hath learned them: he must as the phrase is, obserue to doe Gods will, Deut. 5. 32. Hee must be watchfull and diligent, hee must ponder vpon the waies of God, bewaring lest hee eyther neglect or forget to doe them, Deut. 6. 17. & 31. 46. & 8. 11. 1. Corin. 16. 13. Prou. 4. 26. ⟨p. 28⟩