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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
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1The other extraordinary help is fasting, joined with most fervent prayer. And this is a most earnest profession of deep humbling our selves, in abstinence with confession of sins and supplications (for the greatest part of the day at the least) to God, to turn away some sore calamity from §Gus, or for obtaining of some especial blessing. This description in few words I will lay open for their cause, who perhaps have not read nor heard much of this exercise of fasting, neither have books at hand to help them §1to the right use of it: I say we must be deeply humbled, and make earnest profession of it, more then in the ordinary abasing of our selves. For though as oft as we do pray, and confess our sins, we ought to do them heartily, and deeply: yet neither in the like continuance of time, nor in the same measure of fervency can they always be, as at and in this exercise, they ought to be.
1The other extraordinarie helpe is fasting, ioyned with most feruent prayer. And this is a most earnest profession of deepe humbling our selues, in abstinence with confession of sinnes and supplications (for the greatest part of the day at the least) to God, to turne away some sore calamitie from §Gvs, or for obtaining of some especiall blessing. This description in few words I will lay open for their cause, who perhaps haue not read nor heard much of this exercise of fasting, neither haue bookes at hand to helpe them §1to the right vse of it: I say we must be deepely humbled, and make earnest profession of it, more then in the ordinarie abasing of our selues. For though as oft as we doe pray, and confesse our sinnes, we ought to doe them hartily, and deepely: yet neither in the like continuance of time, nor in the same measure of feruencie can they alwayes be, as at and in this exercise, they ought to be.
- 1The second extraordinary help is fasting. What it is.The second extraordinarie helpe is fasting. What it is.