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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.
THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › How a private man must begin the morning with Piety.
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.
How a private man must begin the morning with Piety.
AS soon as ever thou awakest in the Morning, keep the door of thy heart fast shut, that no earthly thought may enter, before that God be come in first: and let him (before all others) have the† first place therein. So all evil thoughts, either will not dare to come in, or shall the easier be kept out: and the heart wil• more favour of piety and godliness all […] day after. But if thy heart be not (at thy first waking) filled with some M•d•a•ions of God, and his Word; and d•ested like the *lamp in the Tabernacle, every morning and ⟨p. 139⟩evening, with the Oil Olive of God's Word; and perfumed with the sweet* Incense of Prayer: Satan will attempt to fill it with worldly cares, or fleshly desires, so that it will grow unfit for the service of God all the day after, sending forth nothing but the stench of corrupt and lying words, and of rash and blasphemous Oaths.
AS soon as ever thou awakest in the Morning, keep the door of thy heart fast shut, that no earthly thought may enter, before that God be come in first: and let him (before all others) have the