The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…

Name: The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please…
Author: Lewis Bayly

The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author

Lewis Bayly d. 1631London: printed for Edward Brewster, 1695

[17], 566 p. · 116k words · Wing B1502 · ESTC R29026

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THE PRACTICE OF PIETY. › Meditations of the true manner of practising Piety on the Sabbath-day. › Ten reasons demonstrating the Commandment of the Sabbath to be Moral.

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:640p. 247

All which Divine Disposition of admirable things, so oft by sevens, calls upon us to a continual Meditation of the blessed seventh-day Sabbath, in knowing and worshipping God in this life: that so from Sabbath to Sabbath, we may be translated to the eternal glorious Sabbath of rest and bliss, in the life to come.

:641p. 247–248

By the consideration whereof, any man that looketh into the holy History, may easily perceive, that the whole course of the World is drawn, and guided by a certain chain of God's providence,^a disposing all things in number, measure, and weight. All times are therefore measured by the Sabbath: so that Time and the Sabbath can never be separated. And the^b Angel swears, that this measuring of ^ctime shall continue, till that time shall be no more. And as the Sabbath had its^† first institution in the first Book of the Scriptures, so hath it its confirmation in the last: and as this Book doth^d authorize this day; so this day graceth the Book; in that the matter thereof was revealed upon so holy a day; the Lord's revelation upon the^e Lord's Day. As well therefore may they pull the Sun, Moon, and Stars out of the Heavens, ⟨p. 248⟩as abolish the Holy Sabbath (times meet-rod) out of the Church: seeing the Sabbath is ordained in the Church (as well as the Sun and Moon in the Firmament) for the distinction of times.

By the consideration whereof, any man that looketh into the holy History, may easily perceive, that the whole course of the World is drawn, and guided by a certain chain of God's providence,

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