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Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of…
Christian letters full of spiritual instructions tending to the promoting of the power of godliness, both in person and families.
London : Printed for and sold by Nevil Simmons and Dorman Newman, 1673
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.
Do you ear and sleep by rule? doth Religion form, and mould, and direct your carriage towards Husband, Wife, Parents, Children, Masters, Servants! do you grow more universally conscientious? Is piety more diffusive than ever with you, doth it come more abroad with you, out of your Closets into your Houses, your Shops, your Fields? doth it journey with you, and buy and sell for you? hath it the casting voice in all you do?
Do you ear and sleep by rule? doth Religion form, and mould, and direct your carriage towards Husband, Wife, Parents, Children, Masters, Servants! do you grow more universally consciencious? Is piety more diffusive than ever with you, doth it come more abroad with you, out of your Clossets into your Houses, your Shops, your Fields? doth it journey with you, and buy and sell for you? hath it the casting voice in all you do?
Fifthly, If the duties of Religion be more easy, sweet, and delightful to you. Do you take more delight in the Word than ever? are you more in love with secret Prayer, and more abundant in it? cannot you be content with your ordinary Seasons, but are ever and anon making extraordinary visits to Heaven? and upon all occasions turning aside to talk with God in some short Ejaculations? are you o•en darting up your souls Heaven-wards? Is it meat and drink for you, to do the Will of God? do you come off more freely ⟨p. 47⟩with God, and answer his Calls, and open at his knocks, with more Alacrity and readiness of mind?
Fifthly, If the duties of R•ligion be more easie, sweet, and delightful to you. Do you take more delinht in the Word than ever? are you more in love with secret Prayer, and more abundant in it? cannot you be content with your ordinary Seasons, but are ever and anon making extraordinary visits to Heaven? and upon all occasions turning aside to talk with God in some short Ejaculations? are you o•en darting up your souls Heaven-wards? Is it meat and drink for you, to do the Will of God? do you come off more freely