A10945:1665
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
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But it were endless to set down all occasions whereby the simple who would do well, are hy the devil beguiled.1 Our outward senses he so poisoneth that we shall have no right and pure use of them if we be not well stayed, ⟨p. 474⟩(and yet it shall belong before we can espy and see it;) that one shall not hear §Fthat which agreeth with his nature, though it be shameful and evil, but he shall be tickled and affected with it, often remembering it with liking thereof, and pleasing himself in thinking or uttering of it (be it a foolish jest, a secret nip, a filthy rime, a foolish tale, a gross lie, &c.) till it have taken such hold of him, that he cannot shake it off when he would. One shall not cast his eye aside, but it shall be as a glass-window to let sin into the heart, and cause it to be delighted with the beauty of a strange woman, and to be taken with her eye-lids: nor one shall not see any man earnestly following the world, or too seriously occupied about his profits with success therein and sweet comings in, but we are drawn and (as it were) tickled with the like; and so our §Gminds begin to be snared and entangled, and itching to be doing where we ought not. And so we are ready to be led by occasion in other things innumerable: 1 We cannot see our enemy, but we have our hearts rise against him. 2 Nor hurt our foot never so little, but we curse. 3 If a thing go not forward as we would, we fret and become impatient at it. 4 If we be provoked never so little, we storm. 5 If we be told of a fault, we swell and conceive ill, Prou. 9.7. 6 If we be absent awhile one from another, we wax strange.§H 7 If we be merry, we wax light, &c.
But it were endlesse to set downe all occasions whereby the simple who wold do wel, are hy the diuell beguiled.1 Our outward senses he so poisoneth that we shall haue no right and pure vse of them if we be not well stayed,