Ancilla pietatis: or, The hand-maid to priuate deuotion presenting a manuell to furnish her with necessary principles of faith. Forcible motiues to a holy life. Vsefull formes of hymnes and prayers. ... By Daniel Featly, D. in Diuinity.
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Ancilla pietatis: or, The hand-maid to priuate deuotion presenting a manuell to furnish her with necessary principles of faith. Forcible motiues to a holy life. Vsefull formes of hymnes and prayers. ... By Daniel Featly, D. in Diuinity.
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Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.
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At London :: Printed for Nicholas Bourne,
[1626]
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Devotional exercises -- Early works to 1800.
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"Ancilla pietatis: or, The hand-maid to priuate deuotion presenting a manuell to furnish her with necessary principles of faith. Forcible motiues to a holy life. Vsefull formes of hymnes and prayers. ... By Daniel Featly, D. in Diuinity." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A00587.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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The ground of
this feast
Prophecies in the old
Testament.
Histories in the New.
of the Incarna∣tion
of the Sonne
of God.
PARALELL.
Prophecie.
The Seede of the
woman shall break
the Serpents head.
Historie.
He took not on him
the nature of Angels,
but he tooke the seed
of Abraham. Heb. 2.
16.
In the fulnes of time
God sent his Sonne
made of a woman.
Gal. 4. 4.
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The Scepter shall
not depart from
Iudah, nor a law∣giuer
from be∣tweene
his feete,
vntill SHILOH
come, Gen. 49.
10. Christ is cal∣led
Shiloh from
an Hebrew word
signifying to send,
or to saue, or se∣cundinam,
to inti∣mate
Christs vir∣gin
birth, quasifi∣lium
secundinoe.
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When IESVS was
borne in Bethlem of
Iudea, in the daies of
Herod the king, who
raigned when Christ
was born, was a stran∣ger
and so the Scepter
was then departed
from Iuda. Mat. 2. 1.
The Lord him∣selfe
shall giue
you a signe. Be
hold a Virgin shal
conceiue, & beare
a sonne, and shall
call his name Im∣manuel.
Isa. 7. 14.
Ioseph being raised
from sleepe, did as
the Angell of the
LORD had bidden
him, and tooke vn∣to
him his wife, Mat.
1. 24.
But knew her not
till she had brought
forth her first begot∣ten
Sonne, and hee
called his name IE∣SVS,
ver. 25.
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For vnto vs a
child is borne,
vnto vs a sonne is
giuen. Isa. 9. 6.
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The Angel said Vn∣to
you is borne this
day in the City of
Dauid, a Sauiour,
which is CHRIST
the Lord. Luk. 2. 11.
But thou Beth∣lem
EPHRATA
though thou bee
little among the
thousands of Iu∣da,
yet out of thee
shall hee come
forth to me, that
is to be Ruler in
Israel, whose go∣ings
forth haue
bin from old and
from euerlasting.
Mich. 5. 2.
When Iesus was
borne in Bethlem,
&c. Mat. 2. 1.
Ioseph went to the
City of Dauid called
Bethlem. Luk. 2. 4.
And the dayes were
accomplished that
she should bee deli∣uered.
verse 6.
And shee brought
forth her first borne
sonne. verse 7.
For thine instruction meditate on Christs birth.
For thy comfort apply the benefits to thy selfe.
For thy correction examine thy new birth
and life, and
quicken
Thine obedience by the exhortation.
Thy thankfulnesse by the Hymne.
Thy Zeale and Deuotion by the prayer.
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