A27107:1092
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.
The Spiritual Sigh thereupon.
O Lord this life is but a troublesome pilgrimage;1 few in days, but full in evils: and I am weary of it, by reason of my sins. Let me therefore (O Lord) entreat thy Majesty, in this my bed of sickness, 2as Elijah did under the Juniper tree in his affliction: It is now enough, O Lord, that I have lived so long in this vale of misery; take my soul into thy merciful hands, for I am no better than my Fathers.
O Lord this life is but a troublesome pilgrimage;1 few in days, but full in evils: and I am weary of it, by reason of my sins. Let me therefore (O Lord) intreat thy Majesty, in this my bed of sickness, 2as Elias did under the Juniper tree in his affliction: It is now enough, O Lord, that I have lived so long in this vale of misery; take my soul into thy merciful hands, for I am no better than my Fathers.
- 1Gen. 17. 9.
- 2• Kin. 19. 4.