A10945:1723
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.
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,2 as of a treasure more to be desired than any earthly thing, be it §Hhonour, wealth, pleasure, and that at all times. And as for the ungodly they have no liking of it, but the most of them scorn, deface, abhor, and dissuade from it, counting it precisme and puritanism, truly and conscionably to go about to practise it, and throughout their lives to set themselves to bring forth the fruits of it, when yet there is no happiness in any other estate; for into it alone, (as hath been said) do all the heavenly and excellent privileges fall.
1Lastly, that I may hereby (if possibly) helpe to bring the Christian life into some better credit & account, both with the one and with the other: which to my no lesse griefe than admiration, I see to lie as dead wares little asked after, in the world. For many, euen of the godly, do not esteeme of the Christian life, and of the wisdome which should governe vs, as they ought to doe, that is to say,2 as of a treasure more to be desired than any earthly thing, be it §Hhonour, wealth, pleasure, and that at all times. And as for the vngodly they haue no liking of it, but the most of them scorne, deface, abhorre, and disswade from it, counting it precisme and puritanisme, truly and conscionably to go about to practise it, and thorowout their liues to set themselues to bring foorth the fruits of it, when yet there is no happinesse in any other estate; for into it alone, (as hath beene said) do all the heauenly and excellent priuiledges fall.
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