A10945:1597
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.
In such a case therefore, this is to be done for the redress of it: that seeing it is an high offence to God,1 a needless and fond troubling of our selves, and a bereaving us of godly wisdom, yea and of common reason, (that I §Hsay no more) this (I say) is to be done: that we make diligent search & inquiry, whither we be prone and disposed to such servile and base masters, and so shake off that yoke of bondage: and if we have fallen into it, and have been deceived and disguised with it, that as soon as we can, we do in trembling and detestation of our sin, separate our selves from all other affairs and dealings, and fall into the consideration of the unseemliness and absurdity of it with all speed possible, till we feel & perceive our stomach to fall and relent; which will be by little and little, if we harden not our harts, but go aside of purpose, that we may faithfully debate the case betwixt God and our selves. The Lord hath promised, that such going apart one from another, yea (if need §Iso require) even the husband apart, and the wife apart: that such seeking of him shall find him,2 and such dislike of our corruption (and namely, of such impotency for want of grace) shall be the next way to recover it again: and when we have seen what we have gained thereby, or rather how much we have lost; that (as our Saviour admonished in the like case) we go our way and sin no more in that manner, lest a worse thing befall us. And this for a taste of the corruption.
In such a case therefore, this is to be done for the redresse of it: that seeing it is an high offence to God,1 a needlesse and fond troubling of our selues, and a bereauing vs of godly wisedome, yea and of common reason, (that I §Hsay no more) this (I say) is to be done: that we make diligent search & inquirie, whither we be prone and disposed to such seruile and base maisters, and so shake off that yoke of bondage: and if we haue fallen into it, and haue bene deceiued and disguised with it, that as soone as we can, we do in trembling and detestation of our sinne, separate our selues from all other affaires and dealings, and fall into the consideration of the vnseemelinesse and absurditie of it with all speed possible, till we feele & perceiue our stomack to fall and relent; which will be by litle and litle, if we harden not our harts, but go aside of purpose, that we may faithfully debate the case betwixt God and our selues. The Lord hath promised, that such going apart one frō another, yea (if need