A10945:1317
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.
For it is not to be denied, but that as in other states,1 so there are many hypocrites §Camong servants, who make profession of religion, as Gehazai and many did whom we read of: against whom I denounce by the word of the Lord, that they shall bear the punishment of their iniquity: But to grow to this absurdity from thence, that all religious servants are such, and that they would not choose such to be servants to them; the least sin that it can be made, is: that it is a rash and a carnal speech, and so much the more faulty, by how much he that uttereth it, goeth for the better Protestant. For such declare that so their business be done, they can bear any rudeness, brutishness and disorder in their servants, and so the dishonouring of God thereby: for all such behaviour must be looked for, more or less, in such as are not religious. §DBut commonly such masters are justly met with by the servants, whom they so prefer before those which are religious.
For it is not to be denied, but that as in other states,1 so there are many hypocrites §Camong seruants, who make profession of religion, as Gehazai and many did whom we reade of: against whom I denounce by the word of the Lord, that they shall beare the punishment of their iniquitie: But to grow to this absurditie from thence, that all religious seruants are such, and that they would not chuse such to be seruants to them; the least sinne that it can be made, is: that it is a rash and a carnall speech, and so much the more faultie, by how much he that vttereth it, goeth for the better Protestant. For such declare that so their businesse be done, they can beare any rudenesse, brutishnesse and disorder in their seruants, and so the dishonoring of God thereby: for all such behauiour must be looked for, more or lesse, in such as are not religious. §DBut commonly such maisters are iustly met with by the seruants, whom they so preferre before those which are religious.
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