A10945:1630
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.
This is some part of the hurt that riches may do us, even as they do procure and bring all these with many other to the men of the world; as agreeable to Solomons words:1 I have seen an evil sickness under the Sun: riches reserved to the owners thereof, to their evil. These sins therefore, with their like, ⟨p. 461⟩§Aand the woe that they bring, if we will wisely and carefully prevent and avoid, (as who doth not see, that great diligence must be used for the shunning of the same?) we shall help in good sort to break the neck of this covetousness: which otherwise will bear sway in us, howsoever the name of it be odious to us. Now such as have not riches in any plenty, but are poor,2 may have worldly minds as well as the other; and are more like to covet, to be discontented, fret, and to use unlawful shifts to come out of their wants: whereby no small hurt doth ensue unto them. All which,3 true Christians must learn to resist and withstand, and to see what allowance God affordeth them, and not what their greedy appetite would desire. And besides §Bother means by which they resist, let them labour in their calling diligently, both they which want, and they who have much: for that becometh us all well, so as with it we provide, that we be not hurt by the worldly goods, that is, by diverse sins which they cause, whereby we should utterly disgrace our profession. And thereby and by no better way, we shall prove that we are not covetous, while we arm our selves against all such evils as riches do cause men to commit for the excessive love that they bear to them: a great number of the which I have set down. And this of the third remedy.
This is some part of the hurt that riches may do vs, euen as they do procure and bring all these with many other to the men of the world; as agreeable to Salomons words:1 I haue seene an euill sicknesse vnder the Sunne: riches reserued to the owners thereof, to their euill. These sinnes therefore, with their like,