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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.
CHAP. 9. Of the illustration or more full declaration of the former part of the direction.
1FOR the first point, that we must be displeased with our selves, and humbled for our sins every day, as ignorance, deadness of heart, rashness, uncharitableness and wrath,2 or any other, that shall give us occasion: yea, even the body of sin it self, that verse of the Psal. 51.3. doth prove: where David seeking pardon of his sin, acknowledged it to God, saying: I know mine iniquity, & my sin is ever before me; then no day to be forgotten. So the Apostle saith, the sun must not go down upon our wrath, 3meaning thereby, that we must soon §Kforget and forgive, and compound our controversies, and break off our strife; and not lie therein till the evening: therefore daily confess, and be humbled for them, which cannot be done (we know) to the pleasing of God, except our harts be broken with relenting and melting for them. And if the sun may not go down upon our wrath, neither (by the like reason) any other ⟨p. 321⟩§Fsin may be suffered to lurk or abide any such time in us, who doth not see, that it should be a good part of our care throughout the day, both to cast out such draff, (as we have drunk in) by lamenting our estate, even as it ought to be another part of it, to hold and keep it out?4 And if Job when his sons and daughters did feast together for the preserving of love every day in their course; if he (I say) did command them to sanctify and cleanse themselves every day, and did in like manner, offer burnt offerings for them himself every morning, because he thought they had some way displeased God, would he (think we) on other days, when they were like more to offend,