A10945:1552
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.
I may justly make a heavy complaint of the decay thereof in many Ministers, whose glory and crown it was sometime,1 to see the peoples profiting in godliness, as Paul saith; whose meat and drink was, to do the will of their Father, and who did well prove that they loved Christ more then all other things, by their diligence in feeding his sheep and lambs:2 and what prey or booty soever they have met with, and got since, sure I am, that some of them do sometime wish those seasons past, were now present still. And whatsoever §Ecauses of this decay they allege, yet when they weigh their case uprightly, they can say no less, but the fault is principally in themselves. How many of the people also may I speak of, who verify that saying of Christ:3 John was a burning light, and for a season ye delighted in him? who neither can honour God, as then they did, nor give that light to other? All which I wish to consider that which was said to them that had offended in the like case: I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love: Remember from whence ⟨p. 434⟩thou art fallen and repent, &c.
I may iustly make a heauie complaint of the decay thereof in many Ministers, whose glorie and crowne it was sometime,1 to see the peoples profiting in godlinesse, as Paul saith; whose meate and drinke was, to do the will of their Father, and who did well prooue that they loued Christ more then all other things, by their diligence in feeding his sheepe and lambes:2 and what prey or bootie soeuer they haue met with, and got since, sure I am, that some of them do sometime wish those seasons past, were now present still. And whatsoeuer §Ecauses of this decay they alleadge, yet when they weigh their case vprightly, they can say no lesse, but the fault is principally in themselues. How many of the people also may I speake of, who verifie that saying of Christ: