A17410:67
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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He must haste to,1 and look for the coming of Jesus Christ, 2. Pet. 3. 12. He must often remember his latter end, and daily set before his eyes the coming of Christ, striving to stir up in his heart the desire after Christ, praying for it, and dispatching those ⟨p. 32⟩works, that may prepare him thereunto: The remembrance of our accounts in the day of Christ will wonderfully quicken men to the care of well, doing, and the cause of the viciousness, and miserable neglect, and procrastinations of many is, their forgetting of their latter end: A great reason, why the directions about godliness are not entertained, is, because men put far away from them the day of the Lord: whereas the remembrance of the revelation of Jesus Christ, would put Spirit and Life ⟨p. 33⟩into us. He dares not say from his heart, Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly, that is not resolved diligently to work the works of Christ.
Hee must haste to,1 and looke for the comming of Iesus Christ, 2. Pet. 3. 12. Hee must often remember his latter end, and daily set before his eies the comming of Christ, striuing to stirre vp in his heart the desire after Chrst, praying for it, and dispatching those ⟨p. 32⟩workes, that may prepare him thereunto: The remembrance of our accounts in the day of Christ will wonderfully quicken men to the care of well, doing, and the cause of the viciousnesse, and miserable neglect, and procrastinations of many is, their forgetting of their latter end: A great reason, why the directions about godlinesse are not entertained, is, because men put farre away from them the day of the Lord: whereas the remembrance of the reuelation of Iesus Christ, would put Spirit and Life ⟨p. 33⟩