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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.
For this may all see and easily know, that God hath commanded that parents and fathers of families should rehearse his laws continually unto their children,1 and (as it were) whet their memories with them by talking of them in their house, and when they lye down, and when they rise up, and to bring the word of God into familiar acquaintance with them: which is no §Imore then he saw necessary for them.
For this may all see and easily know, that God hath commanded that parents and fathers of families should rehearse his lawes continually vnto their children,1 and (as it were) whet their memories with them by talking of them in their house, and when they lye downe, and when they rise vp, and to bring the word of God into familiar acquaintance with them: which is no §Imore then he saw necessarie for them.
- 1Deut 6.7.
By the which commandment we may see, how this latter age of ours is degenerated from the holy custom of religious exercises in our families, which were in use so many thousand years agone. For there can be no time found throughout the day, nay the whole week, in many Christians houses, to be occupied about such matters; and yet (which maketh their sin the greater) how are they letted from them? by more weighty occasions? No: but partly through ignorance, so that they could not; through the trifling out of the time in idle and unnecessary talk or folly: and partly through continual taking up of it in one worldly thing or other, or nourishing tetchiness §K