A10945:1803
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.
And to speak more plainly, if we do not so begin the day with thanksgiving,1 confession of sin, and prayer when we may do it conveniently, and so arm our selves with the whole armour of a Christian, so watch and pray after, so use Christian exercise in family, and remember Gods bounty towards us; and lastly so look back to our passing of the day, that we may see by all these that we have been guided by God, and that we have been holden in our course without any just cause to wound our conscience: then it is the divill,§H who hath detained and kept our right from us, and deprived us of so good a portion as our God hath bequeathed us, when he showed himself willing to have had it otherwise.
And to speake more plainely, if we doe not so begin the day with thanksgiuing,1 confession of sinne, and praier when we may doe it conueniently, and so arme our selues with the whole armour of a Christian, so watch and pray after, so vse Christian exercise in family, and remember Gods bounty towards vs; and lastly so looke backe to our passing of the day, that we may see by all these that we haue beene guided by God, and that we haue beene holden in our course without any iust cause to wound our conscience: then it is the diuill,§H who hath detained and kept our right from vs, and depriued vs of so good a portion as our God hath bequeathed vs, when he shewed himselfe willing to haue had it otherwise.
- 1How the day is to be begun and continued.
And whither through ignorance, we know not how to be safely led through the day; or that which is little better, although we know, yet for sloth, or for that we love darkness more then light,