The Baptistery, or, The way of eternal life (1842) (14597260720)

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Title: The Baptistery, or, The way of eternal life
Year: 1842 (1840s)
Authors: Williams, Isaac, 1802-1865 Bolswert, Boetius a, 1580-1633?
Subjects: Christian poetry, English Meditations Christian life
Publisher: Oxford : John Henry Parker
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Princeton Theological Seminary Library



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(MAGE THE FIRST &0**tt>fr, (D man, thine niD and tlnj tuans. Consider (A) as in tin- presence of God, for what end thou artcreated, (H) ai if thine Heavenly Guide stood by thy ride aa thou art formed from the dust, and pointed out to thee thine everlastinghome. Consider that the end is twofold, the one is that of happi-ness (C), the other of misery (D). And into this latter the Worldis being rolled down (E). It departeth into smoke, and is in-flamed with a threefold concupiscence. And observe how it isever tossed about as the sea (F), whieh causeth sbipwreeks, and isfull of shoals and rocks. Into that celestial Glory there is a three-fold way that leadeth (G), by whieh is signified the threefoldstate of life ; the life of religious retirement which is denotedby the direct way ; that of the ecclesiastic by one which is lessdirect; and the secular by that which is winding and intricate.Ami this forsooth it is, inasmuch as it is of its own nature lessadapted to the attainment of C