Seven exercises or meditations by which a man may be, in a short time, established in the fear of God, and a good and holy life / by Lewis Blosius ...

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Seven exercises or meditations by which a man may be, in a short time, established in the fear of God, and a good and holy life / by Lewis Blosius ...
Author
Blois, Louis de, 1506-1566.
Publication
London :: Printed for M. Turner ...,
1686.
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Meditations.
Spiritual exercises.
Devotional exercises.
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"Seven exercises or meditations by which a man may be, in a short time, established in the fear of God, and a good and holy life / by Lewis Blosius ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28388.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 7, 2024.

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Precept XIII.

WHatsoever is not God, do not greatly care for it, nor deem it much to concern thee; for so thou wilt be be able by a holy intro∣version with a free mind vacantly to intend to God himself. And in∣deed it is the one thing necessary; which to ob∣tain thou oughtest al∣waies to labour, strive, and do what is in thy power; yet so that thou

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wholly despair of thy self and thy own endea∣vours, and place all thy hope in God alone, in his only Mercy and Good∣ness, in the Sole Help of his Grace. For with∣out God, thou canst do nothing but Sin.

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