A27107:614
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 of the true manner of practising Piety on the Sabbath-day.
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.
As therefore under the old Testament, 1God, by the glory consisting of seven Lamps, seven Branches, &c. put them in remembrance of the Creation, Light, and Sabbath's •est: So under the New Testament, Christ, the true light of the world, appeareth in the midst of the 7 lamp•, and seven golden candle-sticks, to put us in min• to honour our Redeemer in in the light of the Gospel of the Lord's seventh day of rest. 2And seeing the Redemption, both for might and mercy, so f•r exceedeth the Cation; it stood with great reason, thee the greater work should carry the honour of the day. Neither doth he honourable title of the Lord's-day diminish the glory of the Sabbath; but rather, being added, augments the dignity thereof; ⟨p. 229⟩as the name of Israel added unto Jacob, 3made the Patriarch the more renowned.
As therefore under the old Testament, 1God, by the glory consisting of seven Lamps, seven Branches, &c. put them in remembrance of the Creation, Light, and Sabbath's •est: So under the New Testament, Christ, the true light of the world, appeareth in the midst of the 7 lamp•, and seven golden candle-sticks, to put us in min• to honour our Redeemer in in the light of the Gospel of the Lord's seventh day of rest. 2And seeing the Redemption, both for might and mercy, so f•r exceedeth the C•cation; it stood with great reason, thee the greater work should carry the honour of the day. Neither doth he honourable title of the Lord's-day diminish the glory of the Sabbath; but rather, being added, augments the dignity thereof;