A10945:1356
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 for other companies, they are of another kind: some about honest refreshings, some about bargainings, covenants-making, & other agreements; & some about suites, debates, controversies, and such like: and although there §Ccannot certain rules be given concerning them all;1 yet they must be all gone about and done in such wise, as that they may be suitable and correspondent to the other parts of Christian life, that there be no breaking off our comfort with God by loose and careless doing of them, but that we hold the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace: neither that there be a following of the fashion of other men in them, but that we being armed with such grace as is fit for those occasions, may show, that we are attired with the furniture of Christians, which we ought continually (as with seemly apparel) to be clothed with, to make our whole conversation comely.
As for other companies, they are of another kind: some about honest refreshings, some about bargainings, couenants-making, & other agreements; & some about suites, debates, controuersies, and such like: and although there §Ccannot certaine rules be giuen concerning them all;1 yet they must be all gone about and done in such wise, as that they may be sutable and correspondent to the other parts of Christian life, that there be no breaking off our comfort with God by loose and carelesse doing of them, but that we hold the vnitie of the Spirit in the bond of peace: neither that there be a following of the fashion of other men in them, but that we being armed with such grace as is fit for those occasions, may shew, that we are attired with the furniture of Christians, which wee ought continually (as with seemely apparell) to be cloathed with, to make our whole conuersation comely.
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