A27107:441
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.
1. That the greater thy business is, by so much the more need thou hast to pray for God's good speed and blessing thereon: seeing it is certain, that nothing can prosper without his blessing.
2. That many a Man, when he thought himself surest, hath been soonest crossed, so mayest thou.
2. That many a Man, when he thought himself surest, hath been soonest crossed, so maist thou.
3. That many a Man hath gone out of his door, and never come in again.1 Many a Man who rose well and lively in the morning, hath been seen a dead Man ere night. So may it befall thee: and if thou be so careful, before thou goest abroad, to drink, to fence thy body from ill airs; how much more careful shouldest thou be to pray, to preserve thy soul from evil temptations?
3. That many a Man hath gone out of his door, and never come in again.1 Many a Man who rose well and lively in the morning, hath been seen a dead Man ere night. So may it befal thee: and if thou be so careful, before thou goest abroad, to drink, to fence thy body from ill airs; how much more careful shouldest thou be to pray, to preserve thy soul from evil temptations?
- 1Quem dies vidit veniens superbum: Hunc dies vidit fugiens jacentem. Senec. Nescis quid vesper serus vel••t. Varro.