A27107:430
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. › A Prayer for the Morning. › Meditations to stir us up to Morning Prayer.
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.
IF when thou art about to pray, Satan shall suggest that thy Prayers are too long, and that therefore it were better either to omit Prayers, or else to cut them shorter: meditate, that Prayer is thy spiritual sacrifice, 1wherewith God is well pleased; and therefore it is so displeasing to the Devil, and so irksome to thy Flesh. Bend therefore thy Affections (will they, nill thy) to so holy an exercise; assuring thy self, that it doth by so much the more please God, by how much the more it is unpleasing to thy flesh.
2. Forget not how the Holy Ghost puts at down as a special note of reprobates: they call not upon the Lord, 1they call not upon God. 2And when Eliphaz supposed that Job had cast off the fear of God, 3and tha• God had cast Job out of his favour, he chargeth him that he restrained prayer […] God: making that a sure none of the […] and a sufficient cause of the other. On the other side, that God hath promised, that whosoever shall call on his name shall be saved. ⟨p. 155⟩4It is certain, that he who maketh no conscience of the duty of Prayer, hath no grace of the holy Spirit in him. For the spirit of grace and of prayer, are one: And therefore Grace and Prayer go together.5