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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.
To return therefore to them whom God in mercy hath called to assurance of their salvation, for they by such direction as I speak of, shall see the Christian life more easy by many degrees, then ever they found it whiles they walked after no certain direction before:1 such (I say) both poor and rich, Minister and people, one and another, may learn, and that every day through their life, how to keep company, how to be solitary, how to be occupied ⟨p. 339⟩§Ain their labours, how to cease from them, how to rise and how to lye down, and how to bestow the other times of the day; not discouraged at night though they did not all duties, (which in one day cannot be) but quiet and cheerful, seeing they did those which by good direction they saw most necessary. For they shall be taught by it to keep a certain proportion and agreement in their actions, that as one savoureth of Religion, and a godly mind, so may the other also: and as they speak and hear the word well, so they may have their thoughts good also, & their harts purged from whence both these do come: and as in their prayers to be holily affected, so in their husbandry, housewifery, feasting, journeying, buying, eating and other dealing: §Bthat so every part of the day in the diverse actions of it, may have the proper due thereof; which if it may be obtained, is not meanly to be accounted of, if we consider how many thousands, never taste of this dainty through the year (which we may enjoy every day:) yea, and for the want of it, have a woeful and a deceivable passing of the time, and for the most part wearisome and tedious.
To returne therefore to them whom God in mercy hath called to assurance of their saluation, for they by such direction as I speake of, shall see the Christian life more easie by many degrees, then euer they found it whiles they walked after no certaine direction before:1 such (I say) both poore and rich, Minister and people, one and another, may learne, and that euery day through their life, how to keepe company, how to be solitarie, how to be occupied ⟨p. 339⟩