A10945:1755
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. 5. Of a second branch of the third privilege.
CHAP. 5. Of a second branch of the third priuiledge.
Another branch of this privilege or honour, that Christians have above other men, (which though it necessarily accompany the former, yet because it best appeareth, when it is particularly laid open, and helpeth much to strengthen the weak, and to comfort the best) is this:1 that they may be kept and preserved §Dfrom great and reproachful evils, that seldom or not at all (if it be expedient) they shall be overcome of them: which the Apostle would never so often and earnestly have exhorted the godly unto, saying: See that ye walk unblameable and without rebuke; and in another place: Walk not offensively towards them that are without; except he had seen, how they might have attained thereunto. Therefore the prophet saith:2 I have hid thy word in my heart that I might not sin against thee; and again: Let me not wander from thy commandments; and again: I swerved not from thy precepts: 3they are the joy of my heart. And the same spirit guiding Gods people, they are like minded to him; and would not wander nor swerve from his will. And the cause of this §E