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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 4 › Chapter 3: Of the second reason, of a daily direction consisting of two branches.
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For they object through the ignorance that is in them, and other infirmities carrying them, as a whirlwind, that they are not to be urged to follow this word of God so particularly; for it distracteth them sore, but every man in the state he is in (they say) is to carry himself, as he thinks good in his common actions and business: they hope men be no children, to be appointed what they should do: when yet, God ceaseth not to sound this §Hin our ears continually, 1. Cor. 10. Whether we eat or drink, &c. So that I may well answer them that God hath not only left his Scriptures among us, to the end we should in such a loose manner look after them, and fall into gross errors for not knowing them, and so become nothing the better for them: but he hath taught us to draw (as it were) a copy, and a certain platform for our lives out of the same, the poor, the rich; the old, the young; the married and the unmarried: all are (I say) to draw out of them, direction for their use.
For they obiect through the ignorance that is in them, and other infirmities carrying them, as a whirlewinde, that they are not to bee vrged to follow this word of God so particularly; for it distracteth them sore, but euery man in the state he is in (they say) is to carry himselfe, as he thinkes good in his common actions and busines: they hope men be no children, to be appointed what they should doe: when yet, God ceaseth not to sound this §Hin our eares continually, 1. Cor. 10. Whether we eate or drinke, &c. So that I may well answere them that God hath not onely left his Scriptures among vs, to the end we should in such a loose manner looke after them, and fall into grosse errors for not knowing them, and so become nothing the better for them: but he hath taught vs to draw (as it were) a copie, and a certaine platforme for our liues out of the same, the poore, the rich; the old, the young; the married and the vnmarried: all are (I say) to draw out of them, direction for their vse.