A10945:1769
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.
Nay, is it not an high degree of honour, that we may from day to day be admitted to rejoice before the Lord in the duties which we do, even all that §Cwe shall set our hand unto: when yet others are so far off from it,1 that they would choose to lie in prison all the days of their life, rather than they would be thus yoked, as they account of it? O therefore, praise the Lord, all ye servants; the Lord I say, who doth so wonderful things for his: for in this is that Scripture fulfilled, which saith: Honourable things are reported of thee, that is,2 which thy God hath done for thee, O thou city, or people, of God. And if it were not so, that the Lord hath done so great good things for his people, how could that be true which is said in another place, of their happy estate; that it is better to be a door-keeper in Gods house,3 because we are there in his service and under his government, than to dwell in the tents of the ungodly §Dwheresoever, yea though it were in the palace of Princes?
Nay, is it not an high degree of honour, that we may from day to day be admitted to reioyce before the Lord in the duties which we doe, euen all that §Cwe shall set our hand vnto: when yet others are so farre off from it,1 that they would chuse to lie in prison all the daies of their life, rather than they would be thus yoked, as they account of it? O therefore, praise the Lord, all ye seruants; the Lord I say, who doth so wonderfull things for his: for in this is that Scripture fulfilled, which saith: Honourable things are reported of thee, that is,2 which thy God hath done for thee, O thou citie, or people, of God. And if it were not so, that the Lord hath done so great good things for his people, how could that be true which is said in another place, of their happie estate; that it is better to be a doore-keeper in Gods house,