A10945:1627
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.
The third sort to whom we owe this, To make them partakers of our goods,1 are our own family, as wife, servants and children: who must have this performed by us, to have all good necessaries provided them at our hands, as food and raiment, with what soever else convenient for them; that they may be the better encouraged and more enabled to live christianly, and to walk in their callings diligently and cheerfully. And if we be occasions to them of neglecting their duties, by pulling from them any of their necessary §Dhelps, yea if we have not a care to see that they enjoy them; we in so doing, show our selves worse then infidels. And yet on the other side,2 will not the Lord allow us to fall into any other kind of ill dealing,3 as coveting that which is another's, or irreligious seeking to increase our own for the maintaining of our charge: but that care and travel of ours, in our particular calling, which avoideth both these; (that neither religious worshipping and serving of God be neglected of us, nor our neighbour wronged nor injured by us) that is the manner of providing for our families, which is beseeming and meet for us.
The third sort to whom we owe this, To make thē partakers of our goods,1 are our owne familie, as wife, seruants and children: who must haue this performed by vs, to haue all good necessaries prouided them at our hands, as foode and rayment, with what soeuer else conuenient for them; that they may be the better incouraged and more inabled to liue christianly, and to walke in their callings diligently and chearfully. And if we be occasions to them of neglecting their duties, by pulling from them any of their necessarie §Dhelpes, yea if we haue not a care to see that they inioy them; we in so doing, shew our selues worse then infidels. And yet on the other side,2 will not the Lord allow vs to fall into any other kind of ill dealing,