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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 fifth work: they confess and ask pardon.
The fift worke: they confesse and aske pardon.
For with these holy affections in this poor sinner, there is wrought an encouragement and some more bold access to God by the same spirit, to confess his sins to God, even as particularly as he can, especially those in which he hath taken most pleasure, and which have most prevailed in him: and to say with the prodigal child, I will go unto my father, and confess, father, I have sinned against heaven and thee, 1&c. how much soever it goeth against him: and as he confesseth his sin, so he poureth out earnest prayers to him for the pardon of them, through the mediation of Christ. All which, howsoever §Ithey seem to him to be no great matters (who is not as yet a competent and sufficient judge in this case) yet the Scripture commendeth them to be great, even the fruit of some little and weak faith,2 and him, who obtaineth them, to be in especial favour with God: as in the forenamed parable is most lively to be seen: where the father (resembling God) is said to have met his lost son before he came at him, and to have embraced and kissed him, after that he was resolved in himself to go and seek to him for favour and pardon, and to acknowledge his faults unto him, &c. Now was there any thing (think we) in the natural father, which is not much more in the father of mercy? who exceedeth all the fathers of the earth in kindness and compassion. Thus the §KLord by his holy spirit worketh in the hearts of his children, and with all these forementioned graces, which he giveth them, he draweth them to prise and value this benefit of redemption so highly, as the wise Merchant doth the field,