A10945:1322
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.
as,1 the Minister in respect of his calling, which is to be occupied in reading and teaching of other, and whose labour is a mean to help him forward in a godly life, because it is an acquainting of him with the Scriptures and the mind of God so properly, as cannot be said of other mens labours: the minister (I say) in such respects, oweth more duty to God (which he may also be §Bable to perform) then the private man. So the wealthy man,2 in that he needeth not be careful or pensive about necessaries, (but it is his great sin if he be) hath more liberty to remember God, and to set upon duty with cheerfulness, more then the poor; who is through mere necessity constrained to his great grief, to cut off many times of reading, conference, and of public hearing (which for the most part, the other need not:) though he be not thereby discharged from fearing to offend God, &c.
as,1 the Minister in respect of his calling, which is to be occupied in reading and teaching of other, and whose labour is a meane to helpe him forward in a godly life, because it is an acquainting of him with the Scriptures and the mind of God so properly, as cannot be sayd of other mens labours: the minister (I say) in such respects, oweth more dutie to God (which he may also be §Bable to performe) then the priuate man. So the wealthy man,2 in that he needeth not be carefull or pensiue about necessaries, (but it is his great sinne if he be) hath more liberty to remember God, and to set vpon duty with chearfulnesse, more then the poore; who is through meere necessitie constrained to his great griefe, to cut off many times of reading, conference, and of publike hearing (which for the most part, the other need not:) though he be not thereby discharged from fearing to offend God, &c.
- 1The minister hath more means to further him by his calling, then a private man.