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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.
And now that I have set down a taste of both kinds of lets, I think it not amiss to stay a while in speaking to both sorts of them, by whom these arise, that is to say, the Ministers and people. And first,1 I turn to you my brethren in the Ministry: And you I exhort to consider your duties laid forth at large in the word of God, sometime by the names and titles which he giveth us, and sometime in plain commandments and charge. The names are many; as watchmen, Ezech. 33.7. Cant. 3.3. labourers, Mat. 9.37. the salt of the earth, 2and light of the world, Matth. 5.13.14. shepherds, Joh. 21.15. and the good Scribes which bring out of their treasury both old and new things, Matth. 13. and stewards §Cto give every one his portion, 1. Cor. 4.1. and nurses, 1. Thess. 2.7. with such like. In commandments thus: Take heed to your charge, and to the whole flock, 3over which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers, to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his blood, Act. 20.28. And again, to Timothy: I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and dead at the appearing of his kingdom, preach the word, be diligent in season and out of season, convince, reprove, exhort, with all long sufferance and doctrine.