A relgious treatise upon Simeons song: or, instructions advertising how to live holily, and dye happily. / Composed at first for the use of the truly pious Sir Robert Harley, knight of the honourable order of the Bath but since published by Timothy Woodroffe, B.D. Pastor to the church at Kingsland, in Herefordshire.
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- A relgious treatise upon Simeons song: or, instructions advertising how to live holily, and dye happily. / Composed at first for the use of the truly pious Sir Robert Harley, knight of the honourable order of the Bath but since published by Timothy Woodroffe, B.D. Pastor to the church at Kingsland, in Herefordshire.
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- Woodroffe, Timothy, 1593 or 4-1677.
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- London :: Printed for Tho. Parkhurst, at the three Crowns, at the lower end of Cheapside, over-against the great Conduit,
- 1659. [i.e. 1658]
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"A relgious treatise upon Simeons song: or, instructions advertising how to live holily, and dye happily. / Composed at first for the use of the truly pious Sir Robert Harley, knight of the honourable order of the Bath but since published by Timothy Woodroffe, B.D. Pastor to the church at Kingsland, in Herefordshire." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A96877.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2024.
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life, being clothed with the Sun, hee can now tread the moon under his feet. And (as Saint Paul) have a low esteem of all things beneath Christ, and can say, as David, Return to thy rest, O my soul: for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. And hence doth gracious Simeon, desire to acquiesce in his Lord, and to dye by his statu∣tum est, who is life it self; to possesse him, possessing whom he is assured, to possesse all things; therefore said well-contented Simeon, Lord let me be translated hence in thy good time, to be inseperably with thee to all eternity.
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3. a desire of content¦ment. Rev. 12.1.
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Rev. 12.1.
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Phil. 3.8.
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Psa. 116.7