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Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading…
Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading and guiding to true happiness, both in this life, and in the life to come: and may be called the practise of Christianity. Profitable for all such as heartily desire the same: in the which, more particularly true Christians may learn how to lead a godly and comfortable life every day. Penned by Richard Rogers, preacher of the word of God at Wethersfield in Essex.Seuen treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holie Scriptures, leading and guiding to true happines, both in this life, and in the life to come: and may be called the practise of Christianitie. Profitable for all such as heartily desire the same: in the which, more particularly true Christians may learne how to leade a godly and comfortable life euery day. Penned by Richard Rogers, preacher of the word of God at Wethersfield in Essex.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1603
Treatise 3 › Chapter 8: Of the last point, which is the benefit of this armour.
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And thus to bring this whole matter of the armour to an end also: whosoever thou art, who canst be persuaded resolutely, to be thus armed thorough §Ethis warfare of thy life, thee will I not doubt to lead into the only safe way, yea pleasant, profitable, beautiful, honourable, and the only happy way. And thou thy self shalt say it in a short time, when through some experience thou shalt be able to compare it with all the days of thy life past, even the best of them, and shalt find it, even at the first entrance into it (which is the weakest) far to exceed them in their greatest beauty. For the longer thou shalt abide in it; the better thou shalt find it, and the more it will make thee ⟨p. 274⟩to be in love with it, for that thou shalt see a continual use of it, and no estate §Fto be comparable to it.
And thus to bring this whole matter of the armour to an end also: whosoeuer thou art, who canst be perswaded resolutely, to be thus armed thorough §Ethis warfare of thy life, thee will I not doubt to leade into the only safe way, yea pleasant, profitable, beautifull, honourable, and the onely happie way. And thou thy selfe shalt say it in a short time, when through some experience thou shalt bee able to compare it with all the daies of thy life past, euen the best of them, and shalt finde it, euen at the first entrance into it (which is the weakest) farre to exceede them in their greatest beautie. For the longer thou shalt abide in it; the better thou shalt finde it, and the more it will make thee ⟨p. 274⟩to be in loue with it, for that thou shalt see a continuall vse of it, and no estate §Fto be comparable to it.