A10945:1778
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. 6. Of the fourth privilege: How the godly may rise again when they are fallen.
CHAP. 6. Of the fourth priuiledge: How the godly may rise againe when they are fallen.
1The fourth privilege doth most fitly go and agree with these §Hthree former, although much differing from them: and therefore I do adjoin it, as the next in order thereto. And it is this: that if at any time his beloved ones do by any occasion fall from their settled course into any offence, whereby their consciences are wounded and accuse them, or be by strong delusion persuaded that God is highly displeased with them;2 yet this liberty they have given them of God, to return to him, with certain persuasion that he will never cast them off, but will receive them into favour again, from which it seemed to them that they were debarred: whereas they, who were never converted unto God, can have no such warrant, neither desire it unless it be in their fear. And yet I speak §Inot this, as though I went about to debar such from embracing Gods mercy offered them: who I exhort earnestly, to seek it speedily. But as for the other, there is no just cause why they should cast away their confidence, and doubt or fear that the Lord hath forsaken them, as the most of them through ignorance and unbelief do too readily conceive and persuade themselves. For if any of them sin, they have an Advocate with the father, Jesus Christ the righteous,3 who is a propitiation for their sins, to the end they may be encouraged to rise up out of their falls again.
1THe fourth priuiledge doth most fitly goe and agree with these