A27107:1075
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695
No title page in the transcription: set from the catalogue record.
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.
Consolations against impatience in sickness.
IF in thy sickness by extremity of pain, thou be driven to impatience, meditate,
1. That thy sins have deserved the pains of hell; therefore thou mayest with greater patience endure these fatherly Corrections.
1. That thy sins have deserved the pains of hell; therefore thou maist with greater patience endure these fatherly Corrections.
2. That these are the scourges of thy heavenly Father, and the rod is in his hand. If thou didst suffer with reverence being a child, 1the correction of thy earthly Parents, how much rather shouldest thou now subject thy self (being the Child of God) to •he chastisement of thy heavenly Father, seeing it is for thine eternal good?
2. That these are the scourges of thy heavenly Father, and the rod is in his hand. If thou didst suffer with reverence being a child,