A27107:170
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.
Meditations of the Miseries of the Soul in this Life.
THE Misery of thy Soul will more evidently appear, if thou wilt but consider.
1. The felicity she hath lost. 2. The misery which she hath pulled upon her self by sin.
1. The felicity lost, was first the Fruition of the image of God, whereby the Soul was like unto God in* knowledge, enabling her perfectly to understand† the revealed ⟨p. 44⟩Will of God. Secondly, True holiness, by which she was fre• from all profane error. Thirdly, Righteousness, whereby she was able to incline all her natural powers, and to frame uprightly all her Actions, proceeding from those powers: With the loss of this Divine Image she lost the love of God, and the blessed Communion which she had with his Majesty, wherein consisteth her life and happiness, if the loss of Earthly Riches vex thee so much, how should not the loss of this Divine Treasure perplex thee much more;