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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.
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By these things which I have now spoken of, namely, daily to be given to every good work, and to look to our selves, that both in prosperity and adversity we be daily well ordered; we see that a Christian may be able to §Egovern himself safely through the day, although he had no further direction. But yet more particularly the word of God doth direct them how to pass the day in their calling, in company, alone by themselves, and consequently in all the actions of the day. Which because I have appointed afterward to prove it, and would avoid tediousness in not repeating it again, I will defer it, till I come to the more particular handling of the daily direction.
By these things which I haue now spoken of, namely, daily to be giuen to euery good worke, and to looke to our selues, that both in prosperitie and aduersitie we be daily well ordered; we see that a Christian may be able to §Egouerne himselfe safely through the day, although hee had no further direction. But yet more particularly the word of God doth direct them how to passe the day in their calling, in company, alone by themselues, and consequently in all the actions of the day. Which because I haue appointed afterward to prooue it, and would auoyde tediousnes in not repeating it againe, I will deferre it, till I come to the more particular handling of the daily direction.
But yet the means and helps, whereby a godly life is preserved daily,§F as I promised before,1 and least I should not so particularly handle them in the direction following, I will in few words set down: and show, how God hath enjoined so many of them, as do necessarily help to the practise of godliness, daily to be used; and though not the same, yet one or other, as prayer, meditation, exhorting one another, praise and thanks, attending to the public means of the word daily, as oft as we may enjoy it. These means God doth not only enjoin daily to be used, but also in such wise, as he who weigheth how the commanding of them daily to be used, goeth with the commanding of the godly life daily to be continued by the help of them, shall clearly see, that God meant not coldly and ceremoniously to