The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Name: The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
Author: Lewis Bayly

The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author

Lewis Bayly d. 1631London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695

[17], 566 p. · 116k words · Wing B1502 · ESTC R29026

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THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › A PLAIN DESCRIPTION OF THE Essence and Attributes of GOD, out of th… › Of all these Attributes we must hold these general Rules.

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.

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This is the plain description of God so far as he hath revealed himself to us in his Word

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This Doctrine (of all other) every true Practitioner of Piety must competently know and necessarily believe, for four special uses.

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1. That we may discern our true and only God, from all false Gods and Idols; for the Description of God is properly^a known only to his Church, in whom he hath thus graciously manifested himself.

1. That we may discernour true and only God, from all false Gods and Idols; for the Description of God is properly^a known only to his Church, in whom he hath thus graciously manifested himself.

aPsal. 147. 19, 20. Jer. 10. 25.

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