A10945:1555
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.
As though he would say: Although all piety and christian care of honouring God be not extinguished in men; yet if they decline thus far, to suffer their earnest and fervent affection and love to God and goodness, to be cooled in them:1 even this is a blemish not to be borne or allowed; and a sin,§I which both God cannot nor will not bear and pass by in them, and which striketh at the very life and salvation of those that offend in that manner; and such a loss as will be hardly recovered again. And, though in other words, yet fully to the same purpose, Saint Paul speaketh to the Thessalonians, when he saith:2 Quench not the spirit: as if he would say, The work of grace wrought in you by the spirit of God, to fix your delight on heavenly things, and not on the earth; and whereby ye were carried to set up in your hearts, the Creator and the things which he commandeth, before the creature: this work of the spirit destroy ye not; neither let your fervent desires and holy affections which have been kindled in you thereby, be as fire which water quenched.
As though he would say: Although all pietie and christian care of honouring God be not extinguished in men; yet if they decline thus farre, to suffer their earnest and feruent affection and loue to God and goodnes, to be cooled in them:1 euen this is a blemish not to be borne or allowed; and a sinne,§I which both God cannot nor will not beare and passe by in them, and which striketh at the very life and saluation of those that offend in that manner; and such a losse as will be hardly recouered againe. And, though in other wordes, yet fully to the same purpose, Saint Paul speaketh to the Thessalonians, when he saith:2 Quench not the spirit: as if he would say, The worke of grace wrought in you by the spirit of God, to fixe your delight on heauenly things, and not on the earth; and whereby ye were caried to set vp in your hearts, the Creator and the things which he commaundeth, before the creature: this worke of the spirit destroy ye not; neither let your feruent desires and holy affections which haue bene kindled in you therby, be as fire which water quēched.