A10945:1700
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.
After this, our covenant was to know our hearts better: how evil they are: what falsehood, fickleness, lightness and such like naughtiness,1 and variety ⟨image 258⟩of corrupt affections we carry about us; that thereby we may be enforced §Fto take more pain to weaken them daily. For we saw, that if we be not diligent to search them out,2 as by occasion we shall be moved to do, we shall both walk in continual unsettledness, and in an uncomfortable estate, because we can go about nothing, but some one of these or other shall be espied to carry us some way amiss in the same. And thus we purposed to note and find them out in us, by a diligent view of and taking heed unto our ways, that so we may be in daily combat with them. A worthy work therefore and commendable we saw it, to take knowledge of them, and not to be content to be blind in the beholding of them (because we are neither easily brought to confess and see them; and yet that he which hideth them shall §Gnot prosper): that so we may behold more filth and venom in them, then we would have thought could have been in us. And we agreed, that if we should be unwilling to discover this pack, that even this willingness to hide them, is one of the most dangerous evils among the rest.
After this, our couenant was to know our hearts better: how euill they are: what falshood, ficklenesse, lightnesse and such like naughtinesse,1 and varietie ⟨image 258⟩of corrupt affections we carie about vs; that thereby we may be enforced §Fto take more paine to weaken them daily. For we saw, that if we be not diligent to search them out,2 as by occasion we shall be moued to do, we shall both walke in continuall vnsetlednesse, and in an vncomfortable estate, because we can go about nothing, but some one of these or other shall be espied to carie vs some way amisse in the same. And thus we purposed to note and find them out in vs, by a diligent view of and taking heed vnto our waies, that so we may be in daily combate with them. A worthie worke therefore and commendable we saw it, to take knowledge of them, and not to be content to be blind in the beholding of them (because we are neither easily brought to confesse and see them; and yet that he which hideth them shall