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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
Treatise 1 › Chapter 7: What desire breeds faith.Treatise 1 › Chapter 7: What desire breedes faith.
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he is to be counselled to hold them all for spirits of error, and Satan's instruments to delude and terrify him. And because they speak otherwise then Gods voice, which saith, Believe, lay hold of eternal life, cast not away thy confidence, 1who also saith: The plants of the Lord shall flourish and grow up as the grain of mustard seed, till it have branches and bows: And again, Be ye established, confirmed, and abound in faith. Therefore he is to lend no ear to them; remembering that which is written: My sheep hear my voice, and the voice of a stranger they will not hear. It was the first degree to the utter undoing of her §Kself,2 and her posterity, in our grandmother Eve; that when God had given liberty to eat of all the trees, excepting one; that she rested not in this word, but opened her ear to a false and lying spirit, in the mouth of the serpent, which under a fair colour, persuaded, or rather covertly enticed, & drew her (contrary to the word of God) to eat of that one tree also, which was forbidden: whereas she should have been astonished to have heard the Serpent ⟨p. 37⟩§Aspeak at all, especially in that manner. It is a dangerous thing to set so light by the word which God speaketh, that we dare so much as hearken to any voice which speaketh the contrary. For she by giving ear to the Serpent went further, and gave him speech also: and yet neither such speech, as whereby she cut him off by holding her self to Gods word; neither (if she would needs answer) referring him to her husband (as she should have done) who heard God speak, and received the charge of not eating of every tree, from himself.
he is to be counselled to hold them all for spirits of errour, and Sathans instruments to delude and terrifie him. And because they speak otherwise then Gods voyce, which saith, Beleeue, lay hold of eternall life, cast not away thy confidence, 1who also saith: The plants of the Lord shall flourish and grow vp as the graine of mustard seede, till it haue branches and bowes: And againe, Be ye established, confirmed, and abound in faith. Therefore he is to lend no eare to thē; remembring that which is written: My sheepe heare my voyce, and the voyce of a stranger they will not heare. It was the first degree to the vtter vndoing of her