A10945:1682
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 as concerning the danger of favouring our selves in our sins, though secret and smaller then many sins seem, these fearful effects have followed: that having winked at the smaller, we have rushed and been plunged into greater: and not chasing away light and wandering desires, we have fallen into deeper and more dangerous delighting in them,1 which having once taken hold of us, could not with ten times so much ado be removed: yea by this sleight striving against some, we have been overcome of many and sundry other. Some have taken great hurt by worldliness, decaying as fast §Hin grace and goodness, as they have gone on with too much intemperance and excess in that deceivableness: some have grown into great coldness, and in apparent security have not espied their estate once to be changed; but have kept a kind of persuasion, that they have been in as good case for all this, as ever they were when greatest care was in them: some have bin ready with conceitedness and froward judging to break off their course of Christian walking sometime, and their fellowship and communion with their brethren. Oftentimes such an acquaintance hath grown by this favouring of our selves in some one, with falling into many, yea and those very perilous, (as strangeness betwixt neighbours, hollowness, untrustiness,§I jarrings, a growing after the common sort, slow growing on in that which yet was our profession, with many other such annoyances) that it may well be said, that fearful effects have followed this bearing of our selves, even in us who have been thought to be of the forwarder sort. Now when these and such like unsavoury fruits have come from us, and that we have in such like manner (as hath been said) walked in the world, what hath been our estate and condition, but that which might well enough beseem such as have in no careful sort been professors of religion?
And as concerning the daunger of fauouring our selues in our sinnes, though secret and smaller then many sinnes seeme, these fearefull effects haue followed: that hauing winked at the smaller, we haue rushed and bene plunged into greater: and not chasing away light and wandring desires, we haue fallen into deeper and more dangerous delighting in thē,1