A10945:1561
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.
CHAP. 7. Of a third let in this first kind, namely: The want of the ordinary preaching of the word of God.
CHAP. 7. Of a third let in this first kind, namely: The want of the ordinarie preaching of the word of God.
AND now to make an end of this first kind of lets,1 we are to know, that there is another want which Satan laboureth to hold us in, and the fittest of all other to §Bbring on the two former: and that is, The want of an ordinary and sound ministry of the word of God, whereby the way to salvation and godliness is plainly and in good order,2 with love and diligence taught so oft in the week, as the people can conveniently attend upon the same. Which being the light of the world, and (as it were) the Sun that warmeth all the creatures of the earth with his influence: so it can but warm and enlighten them who are within the sound of it, as the Sun doth that part of the earth to the which he can spread his beams.3 And although many upon whom this heavenly light shineth, are not made fruitful like a garden by the heat of the §CSun; but rather as a dunghill, to savour worse: yet such as enjoy not this grace of the Gospel at all, can be but as the shadowed places where no Sun cometh, which bring forth nothing, or else that which is sour and unsavoury.