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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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1Lastly, Gods people, by a faithful and diligent walking in their calling,§I have proof how God keepeth them in the way to eternal life, and in the way of peace, and freeth them from many dangers and sins (which fret as a canker:) for whiles they be diligent in their callings, they commit themselves and the course of their dealings to God, who hath promised to keep them in all their ways; and therefore to free them from the evils which meet with others, and so to hold them on in their way. Their good success they ascribe to God; therefore it is a double comfort to them: their crosses which arise, they know are sent upon them by his providence for their good; therefore though they be bitter to the flesh, yet they (who are well advised under them) resolve, that they are necessary for them. And the §Khardest which can befall them, while they offer themselves to be guided by God therein, is ever to be borne and gone under, rather then the ordinary events, which follow the idle and ill husbands, as we call them. And a man would think, that it were an estate to be wished and chosen to live in (if it be well considered what plagues meet with the rangers and disordered persons, who are not subject to God) to be in account and favour with God, as ⟨p. 359⟩§Agodly Christians walking in their calling religiously, are; seeing it is said of them, Deut. 28. Blessed are they in the field, and in the house, their stock and store, &c. Now I have said that which I purposed of this point, for the directing of them who stand in need of this instruction, how to use their callings aright: a little I will add, to answer such doubts as may arise in some minds, from that which hath been spoken.
1Lastly, Gods people, by a faithfull and diligent walking in their calling,§I haue proofe how God keepeth them in the way to eternall life, and in the way of peace, and freeth them from many dangers and sinnes (which fret as a canker:) for whiles they be diligent in their callings, they commit themselues and the course of their dealings to God, who hath promised to keepe them in all their wayes; and therefore to free them from the euils which meete with others, and so to hold them on in their way. Their good successe they ascribe to God; therefore it is a double comfort to them: their crosses which arise, they know are sent vpon them by his prouidence for their good; therefore though they be bitter to the flesh, yet they (who are well aduised vnder them) resolue, that they are necessarie for them. And the