A10945:1135
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.
To the same purpose of daily looking to our ways,1 our Christian life is compared to a course or race: that as they which run keep their bounds and course, and go not aside out of the way: so should they who run in the Christian race, look before them, and see that they keep in their way, and not run on uncertainly, or wandering they know not where, whither, nor §Bhow, by perverting their ways.
To the same purpose of daily looking to our waies,1 our Christian life is compared to a course or race: that as they which runne keepe their bounds and course, and goe not aside out of the way: so should they who runne in the Christian race, looke before them, and see that they keepe in their way, and not runne on vncertainly, or wandring they know not where, whither, nor §Bhow, by peruerting their waies.
- 1The third.
It is also compared to an high way,1 in the which if we guide and keep our beast, although it be laden, it cometh safely to the market with the carriage or burden: but if we suffer it to go out of the plain way into cartrakes, and to climb up to the brows and rough ways, it is cast and wearied: so if we keep in the known and beaten way, we go on our Christian course safely, although with some difficulty, and with many encumbrances: but if we pervert our way, and go out of it, by and by we fall into danger,2 we know not how great: as by woeful experience many fearing God have found it with them, who then wished they had been circumspect, when it is too