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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. › Or thus:
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.
Or thus:
WE give thee thanks (O heavenly Father) for feeding our bodies so graciously with thy good creatures to this temporal life: beseeching thee likewise to feed our souls with thy holy Word unto life everlasting. Defend (O Lord) ⟨p. 215⟩thine universal Church, the King, and his royal Posterity, and grant us continuance of thy grace and mercy, in Christ our only Saviour. Amen.
The Practice of Piety at Evening.
At Evening, when the due time of repairing to rest approacheth, call together again all thy Family. Read a Chapter in the same manner, that was prescribed in the morning▪ Then (in holy imitation of our Lord, and his Disciples) sing a Psalm. But in singing of Psalms, either after Supper, or at any other time, observe these rules.