A10945:1554
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.
1Our Saviour likewise in Saint Matthew foretelleth, that this should be one thing among many other worthily to be complained of, That in the latter days (in which these wherein we now live,2 are reckoned) the love even of many good Christians, (as also of such as seemed by good likelihood to be so) shall decay and wax cold: whereby, what other thing did he mean then this; that mens affection in the worshipping and serving of God, the zeal of his glory, love to their brethren, and fervency towards the preaching of the Gospel, should be sore and much abated over it was in the beginning, when they first embraced it and were enlightened by it to believe in him. And as though he would teach,3 that it should be a very hard thing to recover this §Hfirst love again, he giveth this watch-word in the same place: [But they that continue to the end shall be saved.] Whereby (me thinke•) he doth lively admonish and warn all sound-hearted Christians,4 to look heedfully and carefully to nourish and preserve that holy, pure, and first sparkle of grace kindled in them, against all that might come in the way to quench and put out the fame.
1Our Sauiour likewise in Saint Mathew foretelleth, that this should be one thing among many other worthily to be complained of, That in the latter dayes (in which these wherein we now liue,2 are reckoned) the loue euen of many good Christians, (as also of such as seemed by good likelihood to be so) shall decay and waxe cold: whereby, what other thing did he meane then this; that mens affection in the worshipping and seruing of God, the zeale of his glorie, loue to their brethren, and feruencie towards the preaching of the Gospell, should be sore and much abated ouer it was in the beginning, when they first embraced it and were enlightened by it to beleeue in him. And as though he would teach,