A10945:1722
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.
1Another cause why I set down these privileges of Gods servants, is, that the wicked which wander from God, and are not in his favour, may see, what they go without, and what great good things they deprive themselves of, by their sins. By forgoing of the which, (to say nothing of the deceivable and miserable estate wherein they live) if they should but weigh and consider what they lose and forgo, which others enjoy, and they likewise might,§G it would deeply vex their hearts as oft as they should think of it: even as in hell the reprobate shall find this not the least part of their torment, to see others in so happy condition, which they are utterly cut off from all hope of attaining to.
1Another cause why I set downe these priuiledges of Gods seruants, is, that the wicked which wander from God, and are not in his fauour, may see, what they goe without, and what great good things they depriue themselues of, by their sinnes. By forgoing of the which, (to say nothing of the deceiueable and miserable estate wherein they liue) if they should but weigh and consider what they lose and forgoe, which others enioy, and they likewise might,§G it would deeply vexe their hearts as oft as they should thinke of it: euen as in hell the reprobate shall finde this not the least part of their torment, to see others in so happy condition, which they are vtterly cut off from all hope of attaining to.
- 1The second reason.
1Lastly, that I may hereby (if possibly) help to bring the Christian life into some better credit & account, both with the one and with the other: which to my no less grief than admiration, I see to lie as dead wares little asked after, in the world. For many, even of the godly, do not esteem of the Christian life, and of the wisdom which should govern us, as they ought to do, that is to say,