A27107:26
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 PRACTICE OF PIETY.
Directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God.
Who ever thou art that lookest into this Book, never undertake to read it; unless thou first resolvest to become from thine heart, an unfeigned Practitioner of Piety. Yet read it, and that speedily, lest before thou hast read it over, God (by some unexpected death) cut thee off, for thine inveterate Impiety.
WHo ever thou art that lookest into this Book, never undertake to read it; unless thou first resolvest to become from thine heart, an unfeigned Practitioner of Piety. Yet read it, and that speedily, lest before thou hast read it over, God (by some unexpected death) cut thee off, for thine inveterate Impiety.
The Practice of Piety consists 1. In knowing 1. The Essence of God, & that in respect of 1. The diverse manner of being therein, which are three Persons. 1 The Father. 2. The Son. 3. Holy Ghost. 2. The Attributes thereof, which are either Nominal or 1. Absolute, 1. Simpleness. 2. Infiniteness. 2. Relative, 1. Life. 2. Understanding 3. Will. 4. Power. 5. Majesty. Real, 2. Thy own self in respect of thy state of 1. Corruption. 2. Renovation. 2. In glorifying God aright 1. By thy life, in dedicating thy self devoutly to serve him, Ordinarily, 1. Privately, in thine own Person. 2. Publicly, 1. With thy Family every day. 2. With the Church on the Sabbath day. Extraordinarily, by Fasting. Feasting. 2. By thy death, in dying 1. In the Lord. 2. For the Lord.