A10945:1721
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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And this I do for sundry and divers causes: partly,1 that the godly may see their riches in some sort aswell as other men know theirs; and knowing them, §Emay enjoy them to their great contentation, which few of them do as they might: and that if by any occasion they should be,2 either by the baits of this world, by their own forgetfulness, faint-heartednesse, distrust or other weakness of their own, or by Satan's malice, put out of the possession of them, or any of them; yet by considering and remembering these or some of them, they might be able to return home again from whence they strayed, and that more easily and willingly than many do, or think it possible for them to do ⟨p. 494⟩by any means; especially when they shall see that wheresoever they cast §Ftheir delight, yet they shall be driven with weariness to say, that they find no where so good liking and safety, as at home, I mean in Gods house, that is, under his nurture and government.
And this I do for sundry and diuers causes: partly,1 that the godly may see their riches in some sort aswell as other men know theirs; and knowing them, §Emay enioy them to their great contentation, which few of them doe as they might: and that if by any occasion they should be,2 either by the baits of this world, by their owne forgetfulnesse, faint-heartednesse, distrust or other weaknesse of their owne, or by Sathans malice, put out of the possession of them, or any of them; yet by considering and remembring these or some of them, they might be able to returne home againe from whence they straied, and that more easily and willingly than many do, or thinke it possible for them to doe ⟨p. 494⟩