A10945:1737
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.
CHAP. 3. Of the second Privilege: namely, That God is with his always after he hath assured them of his favour.
CHAP. 3. Of the second Priuiledge: namely, That God is with his alwaies after he hath assured them of his fauour.
But to pass to the second: if they might only know, that they shall be saved after they depart out of this world, and should in the mean while be neglected and left as orphans, desolate and exposed to all injuries and discomforts, the privilege, which I have spoken of, should be the less (although nothing is to be ⟨p. 499⟩§Acompared unto it:) but God hath promised over and beside that,1 to have a fatherly care over them, even in this life also, and to testify his love plentifully unto them many other ways: which special care he hath not of other, though he suffereth them to live. 1. Tim. 4.10. Also he is their shelter from tempests and storms of troubles; and keepeth them safe under his protection, as the hen doth the chickens under her wing: yea, he keepeth them as the apple of his eye; and counteth them his friends, communicating with them his secrets,2 and declaring and making known to them the hidden treasures of his kingdom, and in every estate will save and uphold them by his providence: §Bso that they may prosper and be well liking in respect of other, though they have all outward abundance. And if God who is rich in all good things and hath all power in his hands, be their shepherd, what can they want?3 if he be with them (as he is) who can be against them? if he honour them,