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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.
Besides,1 we may by the benefit of it so be occupied in our earthly and common business, as from the same we may come readily and willingly to heavenly exercises (whereas the most come untowardly:) and also in the same business we may have our minds heavenly, and therefore our actions §Cwhich are done thereby to be there after.
Besides,1 we may by the benefit of it so be occupied in our earthly and common businesse, as from the same we may come readily and willingly to heauenly exercises (whereas the most come vntowardly:) and also in the same businesse we may haue our minds heauenly, and therefore our actions §Cwhich are done thereby to be there after.
- 1Other benefit of it.
And whereas many even of good hope are wont to complain and say, that longer then they be in praying, reading or such like exercises, they cannot keep in any well ordered course, any long time in the day together, but are distracted like others of the world which use neither reading, nor prayer: yet we by the help which God giveth us hereby, when we necessarily intermit them, and cease from them for a time (being occupied in our calling or other profitable duties) we (I say) may hold a good and well ordered course in our other actions and business in and through the day notwithstanding.1 And more then this, when we can bring our hearts to look carefully to this §Das to our harvest, we shall get such a distaste in evil, in respect of that which we had sometime, that we shall have great liberty to forsake and contemn it.