A10945:1133
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.
1And if we see this in common reason, that a man which hath a long journey to travail, as an hundred or two hundred miles, will not count this sufficient direction, to go on Eastward or Westward, as his way shall lie, or by a general rule only;2 but will take a particular note by what towns he must go every day, and how he must pass from one to another: what marvel should it be, that they who are to travail this great and long voyage to the §Ikingdom of heaven, yea and that through this large and wearisome wilderness of the world, do not reckon their way generally by the year, but particularly by every day, and through the day consider the divers kinds of duty, which they are to perform, as a part of the way by which they should go, that at night they may rejoice, that they are so much nearer their journeys end (and that in safety and quiet) then they were in the morning at their setting forth, and have not (with the greatest part) lost their labour, by going out of their way?
1And if we see this in common reason, that a man which hath a long iourney to trauaile, as an hundred or two hundred miles, will not count this sufficient directiō, to go on Eastward or Westward, as his way shal lie, or by a generall rule only;2 but will take a particular note by what townes he must goe euery day, and how hee must passe from one to another: what marueile should it be, that they who are to trauaile this great and long voyage to the §Ikingdome of heauen, yea and that through this large and wearisome wildernes of the world, doe not reckon their way generally by the yeere, but particularly by euery day, and through the day consider the diuers kindes of dutie, which they are to performe, as a part of the way by which they should goe, that at night they may reioyce, that they are so much neerer their iourneys end (and that in safetie and quiet) then they were in the morning at their setting foorth, and haue not (with the greatest part) lost their labour, by going out of their way?