A10945:1773
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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yet must we not think that the spirit hath yielded it self unto the flesh, neither hath been overcome of it, though sore and grievously wounded, if it shall by the feeling of the smart which it took by the sin committed, gather again greater heart of detestation against it, and strength and courage by spiritual armour to repel Satan's poisoned darts for hereafter.
yet must we not thinke that the spirit hath yeelded it selfe vnto the flesh, neither hath beene ouercome of it, though sore and greuiously wounded, if it shall by the feeling of the smart which it tooke by the sinne committed, gather againe greater heart of detestation against it, and strength and courage by spirituall armour to repell sathans poisoned dartes for heereafter.
Now of the examples: and first of Job, ye will say:1 How could he cry out as he doeth in the third chapter against the day of his birth; cry out I say, yea howl, and charge God, but he must needs show himself to be overcome of the flesh? There is no doubt (I grant) but that his adversary the devil did now make full reckoning, that he should fall into very loathsome blasphemy, and utter desperation: and it cannot be denied, but that he was carried very far out of the way. But yet, as he is not to be freed from all fault; so he is not to be further charged then he gave just cause, forasmuch as the Lord himself doeth so determine the controversy in the end (whose sentence no man doubteth, but that it was most righteous:) that although he reprove him, yet §Dof his singular goodness he doth not make his fault so heinous, but chargeth his three friends as the chief provokers of him to that evil which he did, and crowneth him as it were, for that in so great a combat by his valiant wrestling he had prevailed: yet for our further edification, let us see somewhat more particularly into this action, directing our selves by that which the Lord hath said of him. I say therefore, that Job sinned many ways, but yet through humane frailty.