A10945:1269
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.
CHAP. 12. Of the declaration of the first duty of awaking with God.
CHAP. 12. Of the declaration of the first dutie of awaking with God.
1AND of the first three parts of this treatise, thus much. Now for the better understanding of the nine last mentioned §Hduties, and more clear insight into them, (especially for the help of them, which cannot so easily gather so large a matter out of so few words) I will more fully open every branch thereof one after another. And whereas I teach Christians in this place first, when they awake to be with God,2 and to accustom their thoughts to be holy, I mean indeed so much: that so soon as they awake, they should be taken up about heavenly things, (for where their treasure is, there should also their hearts be) as to think of Gods kindness and love towards them, and that they abide still in his favour, as at any time before: the remembrance whereof at our first §Ibreaking off our sleep, what can be like sweet and comfortable? even as a prisoner condemned but to temporal death, doth on the contrary, at his awaking out of sleep, fall into most dreadful thoughts and fear. They are also to think how they have been refreshed by their rest, and kept from the manifold dangers of the night, &c. by the which many have miscarried. And all these and such like meditations should salute them, when they first awake, to this end, to revive that soundness of heart, wherewith they lay down the night before (if they lay down as became them:) and also that no root of bitterness break out of them to stain their actions at their first entering into the day: which were very like to be, if it should not be prevented, and held §Kout by some such gracious thoughts.3