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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The third work: they are broken hearted and humbled.
The third worke: they are broken hearted and humbled.
The former consultation by Gods working, bringeth this resolution to him, that he will no more look back to his old Sodom, what hard conditions soever he go under, and so he falleth to relenting, his heart is broken, §Band he humbled and abased, and in this spirit of meekness saith,1 as Paul did after he was cast down, Act. 9.6. Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And now he seeth that the Lord hath him at advantage (as a man bound in chains) ready and attendant to whatsoever it pleaseth him, who before, for his stiff-necked stubbornness was neither to be entreated, commanded, nor feared. This unfeigned humbling of himself before God, for all his wants, breaches, and wounds in conscience, is a beginning of all goodness and grace, which man feeleth in himself, and casteth off pride, and the strength of an high mind: and what knowledge of religion, or any other good gifts soever a man hath without humility, he is but unreformed and unmortified. An happy §Cdiscipline and nurture to be wondered at, that can so soon and suddenly break the clods of so hard an heart, and so easily wind him as a twig or wand, whether it listeth him, who could not before, any more then the great tree in the least manner, be bowed.
THe former consultation by Gods working, bringeth this resolution to him, that he will no more looke backe to his old Sodom, what hard conditions soeuer he go vnder, and so he falleth to relenting, his heart is broken, §Band he humbled and abased, and in this spirit of meeknes saith,1