A27107:993
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 the sorest Sickness, or painfulle•• Disease which thou canst endure, is nothing, if it be compared to those dolours and pains which Jesus Christ thy Saviour hath suffered for thee: when ina a bloody sweat, he endured the bwrath of God, the pains ofc hell, and ad cursed death which was due to thy sins. Justly therefore ⟨p. 393⟩may I use those words of Jeremiah, 5Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, 6which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath. Hath the Son of God endured so much for thy redemption, and wilt not thou a sinful man endure a little sickness for his pleasure; especially when it is for thy good?
2. That the sorest Sickness, or painfulle•• Disease which thou canst endure, is n••thing, if it be compared to those dolours and pains which Jesus Christ thy Saviour hath suffered for thee: when ina a bloody sweat, he endured the bwrath of God, the pains ofc hell, and ad cursed death which was due to thy sins. Justly therefore ⟨p. 393⟩