A10945:1211
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.
Neither let the people of God count this any burden to be thus directed:1 but it is their flesh and corrupt wisdom which burdeneth them, whereto ⟨p. 330⟩they are not debtors. And what do I persuade unto, but the use of, and continuance §Fin that holy condition, which every true believer hath tasted of, and had his part in, but that many such through ignorance and unacquaintedness with it, have not attained unto steadfast continuance in it? But to return a little to the other:2 ô people to be lamented and ever pitied, that they being borne to great honour even here in this life, should forgo it so contentedly, and suffer others to enjoy it: whom I require to hear me, saying unto them, that if they were wise and well advised, though they might live as their heart desireth here, and should never be called to their account for the same, yet they would fly from a licentious life, being but a sweet poison, and would §Gchoose to spend one day godly, (even for the fruit and pleasantness of it) rather then a thousand days otherwise: which many heathens in their kind, and according to the light and knowledge they had, as Cato, Scipio, and others did, that is, in moral virtue and honesty, to the perpetual shame and just reproach of many which go for Christians.
Neither let the people of God count this any burthen to be thus directed:1 but it is their flesh and corrupt wisedome which burdeneth them, whereto ⟨p. 330⟩they are not debters. And what do I perswade vnto, but the vse of, and continuance §Fin that holy condition, which euery true beleeuer hath tasted of, and had his part in, but that many such through ignorance and vnacquaintednesse with it, haue not attained vnto stedfast continuance in it? But to return a litle to the other: