A27107:474
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.
2. That it be not against Charity;
3. That it be not against Chastity, and then be as merry as thou canst, only in the Lord.
6. Rejoice not at the fall of thine enemy, for thou knowest not what shall be the manner of,1 thine own end. But be more †glad to see the worst man's amendment, ⟨p. 172⟩than his punishment. Hate no Man, for fear lest Christ loves him, who will not take it well, that thou shouldest hate whom he loveth, Christ aloved thee, when thou wast his Enemy: by the merits therefore of his blood,4 he requireth thee, for his sake, to love thine Enemy. Deny him (being a Christian) if thou darest. He asketh but forgiveness for forgiveness. The forgiveness of 100 pence, for the forgiveness of ten thousand talents; of 60 hundred thousand Crowns,5 for ten Crowns; petty forgiveness of Man, for the infinite forgiveness of Almighty GOD. Though thou thinkest thine Enemy unworthy to be forgiven; yet Christ is worthy to be obeyed.
6. Rejoyce not at the fall of thine enemy, for thou knowest not what shall be the manner of,1