A10945:1709
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 because the morning when we arise, is both meetest to be employed §Fthat way, as wherein our minds are best able to think upon heavenly matters, when we have not yet been about our worldly affairs; and for the most people, the best time that may be spared: therefore we have purposed to allot the first part of the day thereunto, with this proviso, that if through necessary occasions we should be hindered from it, we may yet carefully perform it on some other part of the day. And although at the first we shall see some untoward beginnings herein, by which, discouragement from the continuance hereof might arise, yet we resolved with our selves, that it is some profiting to begin, though in weakness: and there is hope that good proceedings, and great, shall come even of small beginnings, being faithfully entered §Ginto. And if by these means we should not become better seasoned in our harts, it is little to be hoped for, that other means should do us the good that we have need of. But when the day is thus begun, that wisdom communeth with us in the morning, and awaketh us with heavenly salutations, we are for the most part kept more sober, and continent from all out-straying the whole day following: for when good things, either concerning the life to come and the glory of it, or the vanity and change of this present life, are deeply digested and throughly thought upon, it is no small occasion to make us more stranger-like to this present world, and to carry about us greater freedom over our secret corruptions.
And because the morning when we arise, is both meetest to be imployed §Fthat way, as wherein our minds are best able to thinke vpon heauenly matters, when we haue not yet bene about our worldly affaires; and for the most people, the best time that may be spared: therefore we haue purposed to allot the first part of the day thereunto, with this prouiso, that if through necessarie occasions we should be hindered from it, we may yet carefully performe it on some other part of the day. And although at the first we shall see some vntoward beginnings herein, by which, discouragement from the continuance hereof might arise, yet we resolued with our selues, that it is some profiting to begin, though in weaknesse: and there is hope that good proceedings, and great, shall come euen of small beginnings, being faithfully entred §G