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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
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.
Furthermore,1 it would not a little help us forward to a slight and mean estimation of all earthly prosperity, if we would daily accustom our selves to muse upon the examples of such, as have enjoyed the sundry commodities as plentifully as any of us do, and yet have been taken from them, and §Esome of them in their flourishing age untimely; as leaving to the rest of us, who yet remain, a manifest spectacle of our mortality, and a warning of us to a moderate use of them, that we might not justify the worlds practise.
Furthermore,1 it would not a litle helpe vs forward to a slight and meane estimation of all earthly prosperitie, if we would daily accustome our selues to muse vpon the examples of such, as haue inioyed the sundry commodities as plentifully as any of vs do, and yet haue bene taken from them, and §Esome of them in their flourishing age vntimely; as leauing to the rest of vs, who yet remaine, a manifest spectacle of our mortalitie, and a warning of vs to a moderate vse of them, that we might not iustifie the worlds practise.
- 1The fifth.The fift.
And it is another special mean to the contemning of the world (though it go against nature) to use to visit them,1 as others also in their sickness (as we shall be able) and there mark how they then speak of them; that so we may see, how little good their commodities can do them, in comparison of ⟨p. 390⟩