A10945:1395
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.
It is not hard to understand what I mean by prosperity: properly,1 even all pleasures and delights, which may lawfully be enjoyed of the servants of God in this life, as health, riches, friends, peace, marriage, and all that appertain §Dthereto, as wife, children, &c. These therefore which are things that a man would most desire, with freedom from afflictions which might impair the sweetness of them,2 we must know that it is a most difficult thing to possess them without great danger to our souls: and therefore the living in such an estate, as to abound in many good blessings of God, (which the world counteth happiness) is compared to a slippery way, in the which a man is ever sliding and ready to fall. Now then,3 to look to our selves daily that we be not hurt, what less work is it, then as if a man journeying all the year through, yea and all his life long, should be constrained continually to be looking to his feet and steppes? which thing how unwelcome it would §Ebe and wearisome, if it were but one day, who doth not see and perceive?
It is not hard to vnderstand what I meane by prosperitie: properly,1 euen all pleasures and delights, which may lawfully be enioyed of the seruants of God in this life, as health, riches, friends, peace, mariage, and all that appertaine §Dthereto, as wife, children, &c. These therefore which are things that a man would most desire, with freedome from afflictions which might impaire the sweetnesse of them,2 we must know that it is a most difficult thing to possesse them without great daunger to our soules: and therefore the liuing in such an estate, as to abound in many good blessings of God, (which the world counteth happinesse) is compared to a slipperie way, in the which a man is euer sliding and readie to fall. Now then,