A10945:1768
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
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And although with delight we go forward in duty both to God and men; ⟨p. 509⟩§Ayet through weak knowledge, faith, memory, &c. through subjection to sin and Satan, even the best estate that we can attain to, is with much infirmity, and with just cause of crying out as the Apostle by his example taught the perfectest in this world to do, saying: O wretched man that I am, 1who shall deliver me from the body of this death? So that the old man is not killed, nor his strength extinguished: we say no such thing, but abated indeed and weakened much, aswell as pardoned, through the grace and power which we receive daily from our Lord Jesus Christ by faith. And this for answer unto the former objection: whereby it may clearly be seen, what I §Bmean, when I say, that God hath given power to us, if we acknowledge and believe it, to lead a Christian life with delighting in it: which though it be not without change, full and absolute; yet, in that it is so great liberty as it is, it ceaseth not to be worthily accounted a most great privilege, as I have said before. For is it a small thing to find pleasure and the greatest rejoicing, in the subduing of our evil hearts, and in the forgoing of our unlawful liberties, which other men fight for with tooth and nail, and would count their life worse than any death except they might enjoy them?
And although with delight we goe forward in duty both to God and men; ⟨p. 509⟩§Ayet through weake knowledge, faith, memorie, &c. through subiection to sinne and Sathan, euen the best estate that we can attaine to, is with much infirmitie, and with iust cause of crying out as the Apostle by his example taught the perfectest in this world to doe, saying: O wretched man that I am, 1who shall deliuer me from the body of this death? So that the olde man is not killed, nor his strength extinguished: we say no such thing, but abated indeed and weakned much, aswell as pardoned, through the grace and power which wee receiue dailie from our Lord Iesus Christ by faith. And this for answere vnto the former obiection: whereby it may clearely be seene, what I