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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
Treatise 4 › Chapter 13: Of the declaration of the second duty, of beginning the day with prayer.
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And pray also in faith for grace and power to mortify thy sin, and to §Edirect thy ways, and for all earthly blessings; and by thine own necessities be moved with compassion towards thy brethren, even the whole company of the militant Church, who have the like need of Gods blessing as thou hast: and (withal) that those which are yet without, 1and strangers from the commonwealth of Israel, may be brought home: that thus thou mayst both testify thy love to them, and daily remember and consider, how thy self and all other do depend upon him for whatsoever is good and necessary.
And pray also in faith for grace and power to mortifie thy sinne, and to §Edirect thy wayes, and for all earthly blessings; and by thine owne necessities be moued with compassion towards thy brethren, euen the whole company of the militant Church, who haue the like need of Gods blessing as thou hast: and (withall) that those which are yet without, 1and strangers from the commonwealth of Israel, may be brought home: that thus thou mayst both testifie thy loue to them, and daily remember and consider, how thy selfe and all other do depend vpon him for whatsoeuer is good and necessarie.
- 1Col. 1.3.
And to help forward this duty the better, some meditation or musing §Fupon such things as may assuage the bitterness and corruption of the heart,1