Among the subjects that Lewis Bayly discusses are: - Seven Hindrances For Sinners And Carnal Gospellers - How To Read The Bible - How To Walk With God - Discourse On The Sabbath Day - The Lord's Supper There are some unique insights that Lewis makes in his writings. Lewis does discuss specific rules and practices (even specific prayers) that may be too detailed for some but it reveals some practices that are scriptural and worthy of study and consideration. Those rules that are spelled out according to the commandments of God, of course are not optional for any true believer - but the exact details God will assign to each individual believer - according to the freedom we have in Christ - by God's own rhema (anointed word) to each of His believers. Nevertheless every true believer can gain some very valuable insight from Bayly's writing for his own walk with God. "Godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come." - 1 Timothy 4:8
Lewis Bayly (born perhaps at Carmarthen, Wales, perhaps near Biggar, Scotland, year unknown; died at Bangor, Wales, October 26, 1631) was an Anglican bishop. He was educated at Oxford, became vicar of Evesham, Worcestershire, and probably in 1604 became rector of St. Matthew's Church, Friday street, London.
He was then chaplain to Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales (died 1612), later chaplain to King James I, who, in 1616, appointed him bishop of Bangor. He was an ardent Puritan.
Bayly's fame rests on his book The Practice of Piety, directing a Christian how to walk that he may please God (date of first edition unknown; 3d edition, London, 1613). It reached its 74th edition in 1821 and has been translated into French, German, Italian, Polish, Romansh, Welsh, and into the language of the Massachusetts Indians. It was one of the two books which John Bunyan's wife brought with her and it was by reading it that Bunyan was first spiritually awakened.
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