Practice of Piety
Title
Practice of Piety
Date
1665
Description
This work is a translation of Lewis Bayly’s Practice of Piety: Directing a Christian How to Walk that He May Please God, attributed to John Eliot. English clergyman Lewis Bayly was best known for this Christian devotional, which was first printed in London in 1611. A standard religious text for many Puritans, Practice of Piety was reprinted more than seventy times before 1800, and the work was translated into numerous languages, including Algonquian. Eliot’s translation of Bayly’s work is greatly abridged.
Creator
Bayly, Lewis, -1631.
Publisher
Cambridge [Mass.]: Printed [by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson].
Extent
397, [3] p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Bibliographic Citation
Identifier
314395
Type
Book
Alternative Title
[Practice of piety. Massachuset] Manitowompae Pomantamoonk: Sampwshanau Christianoh Uttoh woh an Pomantog Wussikkitteahonat [sic] God.[Two lines from I Timothy]
Collection
Citation
Bayly, Lewis, -1631., “Practice of Piety,” From English to Algonquian: Early New England Translations, accessed July 6, 2024, https://collections.americanantiquarian.org/EnglishtoAlgonquian/items/show/42.
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