A10945:1591
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. 9. Of other unruly affections; tetchiness, peevishness, frowardness, &c.
CHAP. 9. Of other vnruly affections; tetchinesse, peeuishnesse, frowardnesse, &c.
AMONG the inward lets of godliness, (I mean the unstayed affections of the heart) though the particulars are infinite, this is not the least, when it waxeth tetchy, peevish and froward either against persons or things being crossed by them, that we cannot §Dhave our will, yea though it be but in trifles. For such is the nature of sin (to the end it may show it self to be out of measure sinful) that we may be taken in such a time with the deceitfulness of it, and found so naked and unarmed, that the smallest matter may be an occasion fit enough to make us trefe and fretting, as if one should stumble at a straw, whereas at another time great provocations could not move us; and all for that the desire of the heart is not satisfied as it wisheth:1 (as David could not be angry with Saul for all the injuries with which he pursued him, and yet was carried headlong by his passions against Nabal for one discourtesy offered him.) §EWhich is never done, but a sensible disquietness of mind and unsettledness of heart doth arise therewith, which overthroweth the well-ordered course: seeing he that is led and carried of his lusts as the cart drawn by wild horse, is made utterly unfit for the time, to pray or walk before God in peace, or to do any other duty acceptable to him. And therefore who can deny but that such are caught with the deceitfulness of sin, as well as he who is overcome of anger, wrath, or any fleshly lust another way?