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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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Lastly, of mens vocation this I add: that I have not so urged the necessity §Fof labouring in it, but that if some through extreme poverty & want of stock be enforced to give over occupying, as having no other remedy (through the hardness of their harts, who will forgo nothing to the relief & setting up of such & the multitude of other poor folk) if it be thus (I say) that they have no other remedy, nor be able to labour in any lawful calling, they may with the peace of their conscience receive alms & please God therein, keep their confidence in him, and grow forward in the further knowledge & practise of their duty, as other Christians do (though this which I say, ought to be no shelter for the slothful and idle.) Which thing if many were persuaded of (as it is pity that any should doubt of) they should bear their poor estate more §Gindifferently; and the shame that many have of it, more contentedly then now they do.1 For that is now their calling to trust in God, and to hope for that relief, which shall be sufficient for them, as they did before their decay.
Lastly, of mens vocation this I adde: that I haue not so vrged the necessitie §Fof laboring in it, but that if some through extreame pouerty & want of stocke be inforced to giue ouer occupying, as hauing no other remedie (through the hardnesse of their harts, who will forgo nothing to the reliefe & setting vp of such & the multitude of other poore folke) if it be thus (I say) that they haue no other remedie, nor be able to labour in any lawfull calling, they may with the peace of their conscience receiue almes & please God therein, keepe their confidence in him, and grow forward in the further knowledge & practise of their dutie, as other Christians do (though this which I say, ought to be no shelter for the slouthful and idle.) Which thi•g if many were perswaded of (as it is pity that any should doubt of) they should beare their poore estate more §Gindifferently; and the shame that many haue of it, more cōtentedly then now they do.1