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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.
CHAP. 18. Of the declaration of the seventh duty: Of bearing afflictions rightly every day they come.
CHAP. 18. Of the declaration of the seuenth duty: Of bearing afflictions rightly euery day they come.
THE next part of our life not yet mentioned, is that which is under the cross and in affliction. Our duty here is, that when and so often as it shall please the Lord to try us therewith, and to change the course §Bof prosperity or any part of it: yet that with the same well ordered heart, which I have said should accompany our other actions and parts of our lives, with the same (I say) we be prepared to receive it from him:1 and count it no strange thing to be exercised with it; and the rather for this reason (as the Apostle admonished the godly of his time) that we are predestinate thereunto,2 even to be like unto Christ in afflictions; & also, seeing through many of them our way lieth to the kingdom of heaven.
THE next part of our life not yet mentioned, is that which is vnder the crosse and in affliction. Our dutie here is, that when and so often as it shall please the Lord to trie vs therewith, and to chaunge the course §Bof prosperitie or any part of it: yet that with the same well ordered heart, which I haue said should accompanie our other actions and parts of our liues, with the same (I say) we be prepared to receiue it from him:1 and count it no straunge thing to be exercised with it; and the rather for this reason (as the Apostle admonished the godly of his time) that we are predestinate thereunto,