A10945:1753
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.
Against the which their remedy must be this, that they resist steadfast in faith:1 that is, that they yield not to this distrust, which long hath oppressed them, but by little and little suffer themselves to be persuaded that their case is far better then they conceive (which shall never be hard to persuade them:2 who found true deliverance from the spirit of bondage) and that the Lord hath not taken them into his favour to leave them at six and seven (as they say) in the world, and to make them shift for themselves as orphans, and §Gto trust to their own wisdom and strength to preserve them from satan and sin: but that he as a father caring for them, hath sufficient power in his hand to strengthen them, and requireth this of them, that they should believe it: which they cannot do but thereby they are mightily stayed and upholden,3 and by the same faith shall more and more be upholden daily; until they see themselves set at great liberty, and that it was the divill who before held them in fear and bondage.
Against the which their remedy must be this, that they resist stedfast in faith:1 that is, that they yeeld not to this distrust, which long hath oppressed them, but by little and little suffer themselues to be perswaded that their case is farre better then they conceiue (which shall neuer be hard to perswade them:2 who found true deliuerance from the spirit of bondage) and that the Lord hath not taken them into his fauour to leaue them at six and seuen (as they say) in the world, and to make them shift for themselues as orphans, and §Gto trust to their owne wisdome and strength to preserue them from sathan and sinne: but that he as a father caring for them, hath sufficient power in his hand to strengthen them, and requireth this of them, that they should beleeue it: which they cannot doe but thereby they are mightily staied and vpholden,