Praxis Pietatis: Das Ist Uebung Der Gottseligkeit

by Lewis Bayly

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588 pages, Paperback

Published March 4, 2018

About the author

Lewis Bayly was a Puritan bishop of the Church of England.

Bayly is thought to have been born in either Carmarthen or Biggar, Scotland, the curate of Carmarthen, Thomas Bayly, may have been his father. He was educated at Oxford, and became vicar of Evesham, Worcestershire. Later, likely in 1604, he became rector of St Matthew Friday Street. He was then chaplain to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales, and was later chaplain to King James I, who, in 1616, appointed him Bishop of Bangor. Bayly was an ardent Puritan. He died in Bangor in 1631.

Bayly's fame rests on his book "The Practice of Piety, directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God." It reached its 74th edition in 1821 and has been translated into French, German, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Hungarian, Romansh, Welsh, and into the language of the Massachusetts Indians.