A27107:431
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.
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 But he that can from a penitent heart (morning and evening) pray unto God, it is sure, that he hath his measure of grace in this world; and he shall have his portion of glory in the life which is to come.
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.