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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.
That we be ready to receive our afflictions meekly and patiently,1 and so be found indeed where we are tried with them, that our patient minds may be known to all.
That we be ready to receiue our afflictions meekly and patiently,1 and so be found indeed where we are tried with them, that our patient minds may be knowne to all.
- 1The seventh: Afflictions.The seuenth: Affl•ctions.
Our lives are subject to many calamities, and every day to sundry: yet,1 doth not the Lord chastise us, for that he taketh any pleasure in our sufferings, but of very love sendeth them for our benefit, namely,2 to wean us from the excessive love of the world, and to purge out our dross thereby,3 that we might not perish with the world, but have proof of our faith and patience:4 which causeth the greatest joy of all other. Therefore we must not fret and be impatient in them, but confess, that they are necessary and meet, as oft as God sendeth them, and therefore wait to see a good end of them;5 that so we may have experience of great good by them,