A10945:1215
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.
For if it were mens pleasure and delight throughout the day to be well occupied one way or other, and in all that they should go about, to have their hearts ready to guide them aright therein, all other gain-saying desires of the flesh should soon be withstood and resisted, and the occasions, by which they were wont most of all to be hindered and withdrawn, should be shunned and avoided. And this may much set them forward in this course, that if they seek to retain constantly any one of these eight rules,1 §Cwhich are set down to guide them daily, they may know, that it will be no hard matter to enjoy all the rest with it, seeing they hang together as links of a golden chain. For they cannot arm themselves with a mind free from the love of sin present, but they must be repentant for their sin past, and embrace forgiveness by faith, and find rest to their souls, and filled with thanks: and so I say of the rest, if they know this point of Gods will, that he requireth it, that one of them should daily go with the other, as indeed the one cannot be without the other.
For if it were mens pleasure and delight throughout the day to be well occupied one way or other, and in all that they should go about, to haue their hearts readie to guide them aright therein, all other gaine-saying desires of the flesh should soone be withstood and resisted, and the occasions, by which they were wont most of all to be hindered and withdrawne, should be shunned and auoyded. And this may much set them forward in this course, that if they seeke to retaine constantly any one of these eight rules,1 §Cwhich are set downe to guide them daily, they may know, that it will be no hard matter to enioy all the rest with it, seeing they hang together as linckes of a golden chaine. For they cannot arme themselues with a mind free from the loue of sinne present, but they must be repentant for their sinne past, and embrace forgiuenesse by faith, and find rest to their soules, and filled with thankes: and so I say of the rest, if they know this point of Gods will, that he requireth it, that one of them should daily go with the other, as indeed the one cannot be without the other.