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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.
Think not upon the many years in the which thou art to continue it, to §Idiscourage thy self thereby, as though thou tookest in hand a thing unpossible, or toilsome, for the beginning is the hardest: and as young children are to be led here a steppe and there another, till they can go alone; so go thou about it first by weeks, and so by months, till thou hast gotten experience for a whole year or more: after which time, thy difficulty will be well over; and thou shalt find it a more easy yoke and light burden to thee by many degrees, then thou wert wont. And while I exhort thee to the diligent regarding of this daily direction, I do not call thee either from seeking knowledge, or from the practising of any necessary duty which might be required at thy hand: but I encourage thee to both; as that thou shouldest so store and stuff §Kthy self by all means as thou canst, that out of this store and treasury thou mayest fetch matter daily to furnish thy life withal, and be made fit unto every good work in the day.
Thinke not vpon the many yeares in the which thou art to continue it, to §Idiscourage thy selfe thereby, as though thou tookest in hand a thing vnpossible, or toilesome, for the beginning is the hardest: and as young children are to be led here a steppe and there another, till they can go alone; so go thou about it first by weekes, and so by moneths, till thou hast gotten experience for a whole yeare or more: after which time, thy difficultie will be well ouer; and thou shalt find it a more easie yoke and light burden to thee by many degrees, then thou wert wont. And while I exhort thee to the diligent regarding of this daily direction, I do not call thee either from seeking knowledge, or from the practising of any necessarie dutie which might be required at thy hand: but I encourage thee to both; as that thou shouldest so store and stuffe §Kthy selfe by all meanes as thou canst, that out of this store and treasurie thou maist fetch matter daily to furnish thy life withall, and be made fit vnto euery good worke in the day.