A27107:1098
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 Third Thought.
Think how it behoves thee to be assured that thy soul is Christ's; for death hath taken sufficient gages to assure himself of thy bod•, in that all thy senses be all ready to die, save only the sense of pain: but sith the beginning of thy being began with p•in; marvel the less it thy end conclude with dolours. But if these temporal dolours (which only afflict the body) be so painful: O Lord,1 who can endure the devouring fire? who can abide the everlasting burning?
THink how it behoves thee to be assured that thy soul is Christ's; for death hath taken sufficient gages to assure himself of thy bod•, in that all thy senses be all ready to die, save only the sense of pain: but sith the beginning of thy being began with p•in; marvel the less it thy end conclude with dolours. But if these temporal dolours (which only afflict the body) be so painful: O Lord,1 who can endure the devouring fire? who can abide the everlasting burning?