A27107:469
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.
And when thou meetest with God's children, be sure to make some holy advantage by them: learn of them, all the good that ⟨p. 170⟩thou canst; and communicate with them, all the good things that thou knowest. The more good thou teachest others, the more will God stillk minister unto thee. For, as the gifts of Men, by much using, do perish and decrease: So the gifts of God, by much using, do the more grow and increase; like thel widow's pitcher of Oil, which the more it poured to fill other vessels, the more it was still replenished in it self.
4. Beware that you believe not all that is told you, and that you tell notm all that you hear: for if you do, you shall not long enjoy true friends, nor ever want great troubles. Therefore in accusations, be first assured of the truth, then censure. And as thou tenderest the reputation of an honest heart; never let malice in hatred, make thee to reveal that which love in friendship bound thee a long time to conceal. But for fear of such after-claps, observe two things.
- mEccl. 3. 7. Luke 2. 19. Arcanum tibi creditum fideliùs custodi, quam depositam peuniam.