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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 4: Of the third reason of the daily direction.
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.
For first God hath taught us in the fourth petition (give us this day our daily bread) so to pray for all things needful to this present life,1 as his most wise providence seeth meetest and best for us; and therefore if he in wisdom §Bdo see afflictions fit for us, though we are not to pray for them, we offer our selves ready to receive them, and take them as a part of our daily bread; or else we understand not what God teacheth us to pray for, nor what we offer to him in making that prayer. For we desire of God in it blessing fit for the time, wherein we are every day: and therefore not only in peace and prosperity, the blessing of thanks, &c. but under affliction, patience, contentation, and such like graces, even the thing of the day in the day, as Agur saith,2 that is, every thing in his time, and as the time requireth. For in prosperity, the time requireth one blessing; in affliction another: that so we may hang on God every moment.
For first God hath taught vs in the fourth petition (giue vs this day our daily bread) so to pray for all things needefull to this present life,1 as his most wise prouidence seeth meetest and best for vs; and therefore if he in wisedome §Bdoe see afflictions fit for vs, though we are not to pray for them, we offer our selues readie to receiue them, and take them as a part of our daily bread; or else we vnderstand not what God teacheth vs to pray for, nor what we offer to him in making that prayer. For we desire of God in it blessing fit for the time, wherein we are euery day: and therefore not onely in peace and prosperitie, the blessing of thankes, &c. but vnder affliction, patience, contentation, and such like graces, euen the thing of the day in the day, as Agur saith,2 that is, euery thing in his time, and as the time requireth. For in prosperitie, the time requireth one blessing; in affliction another: that so wee may hang on God euery moment.