A27107:24
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 CHIEF CONTENTS Of this Book.
1. A Plain description of God, in respect of his Essence, Persons and Attributes, so far as every Christian should competently endeavour to learn and know: with sundry sweet Observations and Meditations thereupon. Page 4 2. Meditations setting forth the miseries of man in his life and death, that is not reconciled to God in Christ. 37 3. Meditations of the blessed state both in life and death, of a man that is reconciled to God in Christ: Wherein thou shalt find not a few things worthy the reading and observation. 63 4. Meditations on seven hindrances, which keep back a sinner from the Practice of Piety; necessary to be read of all, but especially of carnal Gospellers in these times. 104 5. How to begin the Morning with pious Meditations and Prayers. 138 6. How to read the Bible with profit and ease once over every year. 143 7. A Morning Prayer. 217 ⟨image 11⟩Another shorter Prayer for the Morning. 157 Another brief Morning Prayer. 161 8. Meditations how to walk with God all the day. 162 Especially how to guide thy Thoughts. ibid Thy Words. 168 Thy Actions. 173 9. Meditations for the Evening. 185 10. An Evening Prayer. 189 Another shorter Evening Prayer. 195 11. Things to be meditated upon, as thou art going to bed. 198 12. Meditations for a godly Householder. 200 13. A Morning Prayer for a Family. 203 14. Holy Meditations and Graces, before and after dinner and supper. 209 15. Rules to be observed in singing of Psalms. 215 16. An Evening Prayer for a Family. 217 17. A Religious Discourse of the Sabbath Day, wherein is proved that the Sabbath was altered from the seventh to the first day of the week, not by humane ordinance, but by Christ himself and his Apostles: that the fourth Commandment is perpetual and moral under the New Testament, as well as under the old. And the true manner of sanctifying the Sabbath Day is described out of the Word of God. 222