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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.
The seventh work: they apply Christ and his promise.
The seuenth worke: they apply Christ and his promise.
For by the doctrine of the promises, which he heareth, or hath heard published and preached unto him, he draweth his hart to apply them to himself, and to fasten upon them as his own, even as if they had bin properly made to him: he persuadeth him by that which he heareth, no longer to fear God as a terrible Judge, and so slavishly to abide in his former bondage,1 §Gas one in danger of damnation still, and under the curse; but sealeth up his salvation in his heart, and maketh it as effectually his, as any bargain is made sure to us, when he, who sold it, hath sealed it unto us, or given earnest thereof.2 And therefore it is that the Scripture doth so often use this phrase of speech, We are sealed up by the spirit of promise, and by the spirit of our God: to give us to understand, that as nothing is with greater security assured unto us then a writing sealed; so there can be no surer way for a man to hold this redemption and salvation, then by having it sealed unto him by the spirit of God: who only knowing the mind of the father and of the son, doth make the same known unto his mind, and bear witness to his spirit that he is §Hthe Lords: 3