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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.
7 Every day we watch and pray for steadfastness and constancy in all these.
7 Euery day we watch and pray for stedfastnesse and constancie in all these.
8 Every day we hold and keep our peace with God, and so lye down with it.
8 Euery day we hold and keepe our peace with God, and so lye downe with it.
And this is the direction which every Christian must practise every day in his life, and these are the necessary parts of it, which may not be omitted any day at all without sin: nor carelessly and wittingly without great sin. To the which,1 if it should be said, that they are dark and hard to be understood, much more to be put in practise; yea and although they could, yet do they §Dnot sufficiently nor throughly guide a Christian: I answer, he that understandeth so much in the Scriptures,2 as that he knoweth thereby himself reconciled to God, and so have sure hope to be saved, and to be one of them, whom God hath chosen out of the world from the rest which shall perish; he can easily understand the meaning of this direction, and the points and parts thereof, and is fit to be directed by it, (as for any other, it is but to accuse and convict him of infinite iniquities in his life,3