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…

And by this which I say, let it be considered, what ease and peace and freedom from many troubles this sort of men enjoy in their lives, which others go without; and what sorrow and calamities some fill their days with, which ⟨p. 532⟩both they themselves, and many others might be void of. So that it is not as §Fmany have ignorantly thought, that their troubles cannot be avoided; but (as I have said) many of them might be shunned,¹ and their lives might be many ways and in sundry respects more pleasant and quiet then they be: which causeth some that see it to be thus with divers Christians, (and yet that these their troubles are not for well doing, but by their own folly and procuring) causeth them (I say) to be so far from the love of true religion as they be: for whose sake,² if we will not do it to make our own lives more comfortable, we should abstain from offences; seeing the woe that is pronounced, will otherwise,³ certainly come upon upon us: Woe to him that causeth another §Gto fall.

And by this which I say, let it be considered, what ease and peace and freedome from many troubles this sort of men inioy in their liues, which others goe without; and what sorrow and calamities some fill their daies with, which ⟨p. 532⟩both they themselues, and many others might be voide of. So that it is not as §Fmany haue ignorantly thought, that their troubles cannot be auoided; but (as I haue said) many of them might be shunned,¹ and their liues might be many waies and in sundry respects more pleasant and quiet then they be: which causeth some that see it to be thus with diuers Christians, (and yet that these their troubles are not for well doing, but by their owne folly and procuring) causeth them (I say) to be so farre from the loue of true religion as they be: for whose sake,