Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
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Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c.
Author
R. H., 1609-1678.
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Oxford :: [s.n.],
1688.
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"Motives to holy living, or, Heads for meditation divided into consideratins, counsels, duties : together with some forms of devotion in litanies, collects, doxologies, &c." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A66967.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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§. 107.
For the love of God (my Sisters) count that endeavor well imployed, which ye shall spend in this thing;
[she saith of her self, that in her first practice thereof, few days passed, that she made not many hours of Prayer, (but these I suppose more in affective than discoursive Prayer, assisted with reading in Sterilities) unless hin∣dred by sickness, or much business; and she adviseth others to practice it, at least for two hours every day; in her Life, Chap. 8th.] for I know, that if you shall
intend in one year, and perhaps a half, with the favour of God, ye shall attain it. Behold how small a time,
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for so great a gain, as this is, to lay a good foundation, that, if the Lord will exalt you to greater matters, he may see in you a good disposition, in finding you so nigh unto him. May his Divine Majesty never permit, that we far-remove our selves from his most amiable presence! Amen.
The same thing much-what is said, Ibid. ch. 26.
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