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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
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But when men shall know, and may be bold to remember and consider,1 that they are appointed by God to bestow the most part of the time in their callings, (though they be not merely spiritual actions) to the end that they may with better appetite return to exercises of religion again after; and that they have a promise of blessing therein:2 with what peace may they be occupied in them, and overcome that tediousness and wearisomeness, which would otherwise cleave unto them?§G Thus I could wish, that Christian men took their callings to be in such sort enjoined them of God, that they neither durst neglect them, nor yet find them burdensome and wearisome to them: but that they could wisely see, how, when, and why to intermit them, that is to say, for necessary and profitable causes and considerations; as, for the ministry of the word, the visiting of friends, moderate, lawful and necessary refreshings of themselves: and in good sort to return to them again more fitly.3 Furthermore, we shall not be unsettled by the works of our callings, nor wearisomely cast them off, when we shall be able to see, that we have practise of most duties in Christianity therein, as diligence, obedience, faith, patience, truth, &c. and thereby §Hlearn experience, that God who hath given us wisdom, cheerfulness, patience, and the rest heretofore, to bear the burden of them contentedly and willingly, when in the prayer of faith we asked it of him, will do the like for us, and minister the same grace to us, for the time to come.
But when men shall know, and may be bold to remember and consider,1 that they are appointed by God to bestow the most part of the time in their callings, (though they be not meerly spirituall actions) to the end that they may with better appetite returne to exercises of religion againe after; and that they haue a promise of blessing therein:2