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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. › Meditations before Dinner and Supper.
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. Meditate on the omnipoten•• of God, awho made all these creatures of nothing: of his wisdom, whob feedeth so many infinite Creatures through the universal ⟨p. 210⟩World, maintaining all their lives, which he hath given them; which surpasseth the wisdom of all the Angels in heaven: and of his clemency and goodness, 3in feeding also his very enemies.
- aHeb. 11. 3.
- bPsal. 145. 15, 16.
- 3•atth. 5. 5, &c. ct. 14. 17.
3. Meditate, how many sorts of Creatures, as beasts, fish, and fowl, have lost their lives, to become food to nourish thee: and how God's Providence from remote places hath brought all these portions together on thy table, for thy nourishment; and how by these dead creatures he maintains thee in health and life.
4. Meditate, that seeing thou hast so many