A10945:1611
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.
Another way which the devil layeth open to obscure and weaken the godly life in us; & that, by another of these worldly lusts, is:1 to fill us with noisome cares about the things of this life. A common evil under the Sun; and not §Dthe sin of the poor man only, (which yet is not allowed of God, no not in him: for even he is taught to depend upon God, being commanded to pray in faith, Give me this day, &c.) but it is rather more common to the rich,2 as Solomon speaketh: I have seen a rich man, as if he had nothing: And again; There is one who hath neither son nor brother, yet there is no end of his travel, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, neither doth he once say: For whom do I labour, and deprive my soul of goodness? This thorn where it groweth, it suffereth no good thing to grow by it, but choketh it, and overshadoweth any other gifts of God whatsoever. For a worldly mind is a monster of many heads, and infecteth the unwise with her poison, that not §Eonly the common sort, who have small practise of religion; but even the best sort of people are made drunken with the dregs of her golden cup: and this is reached out so secretly and subtly, that hardly shall one perceive the danger of it, until he have taken hurt by it. Which worldliness where it fasteneth upon a man, it devoureth godliness, as if there had been none before; and so changeth the best men who are not aware of it, and who fear not the danger of it, that they shall become most unlike themselves.
Another way which the diuel layeth open to obscure and weaken the godly life in vs; & that, by another of these worldly lusts, is:1 to fill vs with noysome cares about the things of this life. A common euill vnder the Sunne; and not §Dthe sinne of the poore man onely, (which yet is not allowed of God, no not in him: for euen he is taught to depend vpon God, being commaunded to pray in faith, Giue me this day, &c.) but it is rather more common to the rich,2