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EEBO-TCP · Phase 1

A Persuasive to a Holy Life

by John Ray · 1627–1705

Published: 1700
Length: 25,604 words
Reading: ~an hour
Divisions: 22

From the title page

A persuasive to a holy life, from the happiness that attends it both in this world and in the world to come by John Ray ...

London Printed by Sam Smith and Benj. Walford ... 1700.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

Contents

Front matter
Title page
To the readerTHE PREFACE TO THE READER.
AppendixTwo or three things I have to add to this Diſcourſe, which may be inſerted in their places.
PartPage 10. ad finem.
PartPage 67. Line 28.
PartPage 35. Line 4.
Errata
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TractA Perſuaſive to a Holy Life.
Chapter 1CHAP. I. Some Miſtakes, about the Object of Happineſs.
Chapter 2CHAP. II. What Holineſs is.
Chapter 3CHAP. III. What Happineſs is.
Chapter 4CHAP. IV. Of the Diviſion of Happineſs.
Chapter 5CHAP. V. Of Health.
Chapter 6CHAP. VI. Of Safety, Liberty and Quiet.
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. Of Riches.
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Of Pleaſure.
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. Of Honour and Reputation.
Chapter 10CHAP. X. Of Friends.
Chapter 11CHAP. XI. Of the Happineſs of the Inward Man.
Chapter 12CHAP. XII. Of the Hap…ineſs of the Future Eſtate, or Of Eternal Life.

22 divisions in the TEI outline

Subjects

Piety

Details

Author: John Ray (1627–1705)
Imprint: London Printed by Sam Smith and Benj. Walford ... 1700.
Extent: [17], 119 p.
Language: English
Catalogue: Wing R401 · ESTC R13690
Source: TCP A58177
Licence: CC0 1.0 Universal (Text Creation Partnership)

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