A10945:1339
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.
that while they live stranger-like and conceited one with another, or loose, worldly and unprofitably, they may be as others be, who have no acquaintance with the Gospel. For let men think and say what they will, there is not one half of the benefit that might be enjoyed, no not of many professors themselves, by the preaching of it.
that while they liue straunger-like and conceipted one with another, or loose, worldly and vnprofitably, they may be as others be, who haue no acquaintance with the Gospell. For let men thinke and say what they will, there is not one halfe of the benefite that might be enioyed, no not of many professors themselues, by the preaching of it.
But to proceed: it is an harder thing for a man which feareth God, to have §Huse of this rule before set down,1 that is, the liberty of good talk in the company, when he shall by occasion light among such as are not of his own mind; and the worser the persons be, the harder. It will be counted harsh, if not ridiculous, among such whose tongues (as they speak) are their own, to use them as they list, though the best way be taken for entering into it.
But to proceed: it is an harder thing for a man which feareth God, to haue §Hvse of this rule before set downe,1 that is, the libertie of good talke in the companie, when he shall by occasion light among such as are not of his owne mind; and the worser the persons be, the harder. It will be counted harsh, if not ridiculous, among such whose tongues (as they speake) are their owne, to vse them as they list, though the best way be taken for entring into it.