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The practice of piety directing a Christian how to walk, that he may please God / amplified by the author
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Bayly, Lewis, d. 1631.
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1695
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Wing B1502; ESTC R29026
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both for Princes and People to study than that which â—eacheth sinful man to deny himself by mortifying his corruption â—hat he may enjoy Christ the Author of his salvation to renounce these false and momentary pleasures of the world that he may attain to the true and eternal joys of heaven And to make them truly honourable before God in Piety who are now only honourable before Men in vanity What charges soever we spend in earthly vanities for the most part they either die before us or we shortly die after them But what we spend like Mary in the Practice of Piety shall remain our true memorial for ever For Piety hath the promise of this life and of that which shall never end But without Piety there is no internal comfort to be found in Conscience noâ— external Peace to be looked for in the World nor any eternal happiness to be hoped for in Heaven How can Piety but promise to her self 〈◊〉 zealous Patron of your Highness being the sole Son and Heir of 〈◊〉 gracious and great a Monarch who is not only the Defender of the Faith by title but also a Defendeâ— of the Faith in truth as the Christian World hath taken notice by hiâ— learned confuting of Bellarmine ever spreading Heresies and his suppressing in the blade of Vorstius ' s Athean blasphemies and â—ow easie is it for your Highness to equal if not exceed all that were before you in Grace and Greatness if you do but set your heart to seek and to serve God considering how religiously your Highness hath been educated by godly and vertuous Governours and Tutors as also that you live in such a time wherein God's Providence and the King 's Religious Care have placed over this Church to the unspeakable comfort thereof another venerable Jehoiada that doth good in our Israel both towards God and towards his House of whom your Highness at all times in all doubts may learn the sincerity of Religion for the Salvation of your inward Soul and the wisest counsel for the direction of your outward state And to excite you the rather to the zealoâ—s Practice of divine Piety often suppose with your self that your Highness hears your Religious Father James speaking unto you as sometimes holy David spake to his Son Solomon And thou Charles my Son know thou the God of thy Father and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind for the Lord searcheth all hearts and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts iâ— thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever To help you the better to seek and serve this God Almighty who must be your chief Protector in life and only comfort in death I here once again on my bended knees offer my old Mite new stampt into your Highness'sâ— hands daily for your Highness offering up unto the most High my humblest prayers that as you grow in age and stature so you may like your Master Christ increase in wisdom and favour with God and all good men This suit will I never cease in all other matters I will ever rest Your Highness humble Servant during life to be commanded LEWES BAILY AD CAROLUM PRINCIPEM Tolle Malos extolle Pious cognosce Teipsum Sacra tene Paci consule disce pati ADVERTISEMENT This Book being now exactly Corrected and purged from many Thousand Faults which have escaped former Impressions is now also printed in a fair large Roman Character for the Use and Benefit of Aged Persons and to be sold by Edward Brewster at the Crane in St. Paul's Church-yard 1695. The 42. Edition TO THE Devout Reader I Had not purposed to enlarge the last Edition save that the importunity of many devoutly disposed prevailed with me to add some points and to amplifie others To satisfie whose godly requests I have done my best endeavour and withal finished all that I intend in this argument If thou shalt hereby reap any more profit give God the more praise And remember him in thy Prayers who hath vowed both his life and his labours to further thy Salvation as his own Farewell in the Lord JESUS THE CHIEF CONTENTS Of this Book 1. A Plain description of God in respect of his Essence Persons and Attributes so far as every Christian should competently endeavour to learn and know with sundry sweet Observations and Meditations thereupon Page 4 2. Meditations setting forth the miseries of man in his life and death that is not reconciled to God in Christ. 37 3. Meditations of the blessed state both in life and death of a man that is reconciled to God in Christ Wherein thou shalt find not a few things worthy the reading and observation 63 4. Meditations on seven hindrances which keep back a sinner from the Practice of Piety necessary to be read of all but especially of carnal Gospellers in these times 104 5. How to begin the Morning with pious Meditations and Prayers 138 6. How to read the Bible with profit and ease once over every year 143 7. A Morning Prayer 217 Another shorter Prayer for the Morning 157 Another brief Morning Prayer 161 8. Meditations how to walk with God all the day 162 Especially how to guide thy Thoughts ibid Thy Words 168 Thy Actions 173 9. Meditations for the Evening 185 10. An Evening Prayer 189 Another shorter Evening Prayer 195 11. Things to be meditated upon as thou art going to bed 198 12. Meditations for a godly Housholder 200 13. A Morning Prayer for a Family 203 14. Holy Meditations and Graces before and after dinner and supper 209 15. Rules to be observed in singing of Psalms 215 16. An Evening Prayer for a Family 217 17. A Religious Discourse of the Sabbath Day wherein is proved that the Sabbath was altered from the seventh to the first day of the week not by humane ordinance but by Christ himself and his Apostles that the fourth Commandment is perpetual and moral under the New Testament as well as under the old And the true manner of sanctifying the Sabbath Day is described out of the Word of God 222 18. A Morning Prayer for the Sabbath Day 267 19. An Evening Prayer for the Sabbath Day 282 20. Meditations of the true manner of Fasting and giving of Alms out of the Word of God 287 21. The right manner of holy Feasting 303 22. Holy and devout Meditations of the worthy and reverent receiving of the Lord's Supper 305 23. An humble Confession of sins before the holy Communion 330 24. A sweet Soliloquy to be said a little before the receiving of the holy Sacrament 345 25. A Prayer to be said after the receiving of the holy Sacrament 353 26. Meditations how to behave thy self in the time of sickness 363 27. A Prayer when one begins to be sick 365 28. Directions for making thy Will and setting thy House in order 371 29. A Prayer before the taking of