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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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CHAP. 5. Of the lets of faith, and namely in the behalf of the Minister.
CHAP. 5. Of the lets of faith, and namely in the behalfe of the Minister.
And now that I have showed, how by faith men are made the people of God (and consequently justified thereby) who were before his enemies, and his beloved, which sometimes were not beloved, I would here cease to say any more of this matter, but that I consider that every truth is not by and by received; and so I fear, I may say of this, especially because §Kit is oft bewailed and complained of in the Scriptures, that few have this faith, and that it is seldom or rarely found in the world: which thing, we who mark the course and practise of the greatest part in the world, do see may well be so: I will therefore here speak to my dear and weak brethren somewhat more at large to satisfy them, and set down the chief lets that hinder faith on the behalf of the Minister. Now seeing that faith so honoureth, enricheth, ⟨p. 25⟩§Aand beautifieth men, as we have heard,1 it should (doubtless) be far otherwise with thousands of them which think they have it (but are deceived) then now it is, if they did enjoy it. Yea, and to come more near to our selves, for whose cause chiefly I wrote this, the multitudes in our parts of the land which profess that they have it, and by no means can abide the contrary speech to go, or opinion to be conceived of them, should, if they had it indeed, astonish and fear all Epicures, Atheists, and Papists, and other hypocrites, which now differ little from them. They should make the religion (I say) of those which have any (as it is in it self, a lump of lies, and an heap of heresies) to appear so indeed; and the other, who regard none at all, to