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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
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Now therefore it might seem needless to say any more about this matter. And indeed this I say, that he who is settled firmly in the practise of that which is before set down, shall find every day less to hinder him then other, and the Christian life more easy to him. But because we are not ignorant of Satan's enterprises (who,1 as he is first hardly cast out, and with much ado: so he is afterward more fierce and subtle to hinder such as have escaped his hands) therefore I will not bear the reader in hand, that this direction, or the like, will be as easily observed and kept constantly, as read and learned, lest he finding it otherwise, should be discouraged and set further back: but as I §Ghave said of the parts already, with how much ado they shall be practised; so I say much more of the whole, that seeing it is a chaining up of the unruly thoughts and desires of the heart, it will at the first seem the more difficult. But although they escape that first plunge (I mean, not to renounce and cast off the practise of it altogether through the difficulty and hardness which seemeth to be in it, but will conceive hope that God will strengthen them to abide constantly therein; which is a great conquest:) yet they must know, that there will fall out very many lets to hinder and hold them back one time or other, and one way or other, to make the doctrine which should direct them, without fruit unto them. The devil (as I have said) will lay sundry §Hblocks in their way, to hinder them from going forward in and after this course of living by faith daily.
Now therefore it might seeme needlesse to say any more about this matter. And indeed this I say, that he who is setled firmely in the practise of that which is before set downe, shall find euery day lesse to hinder him then other, and the Christian life more easie to him. But because we are not ignorant of Sathans enterprises (who,1 as he is first hardly cast out, and with much ado: so he is afterward more fierce and subtill to hinder such as haue escaped his hands) therefore I will not beare the reader in hand, that this direction, or the like, will be as easily obserued and kept constantly, as read and learned, lest he finding it otherwise, should be discouraged and set further backe: but as I