A10945:1830
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 as for the troubles which we speak of, let no man think that we may rejoice in them,1 seeing we are dehorted from them by the Apostle Peter, saying: Let no man suffer as an evil doer; seeing they are for just cause upon us to vex & disquiet us, rather then that they can be any matter of joy and gladness to us, except by godly sorrow they bring us to repentance, which (alas) is the least §Ipart of their thought who commit them. The Lord taketh no pleasure in seeing us to trouble our selves, and by our sins to bring vexation into our lives; but showeth us in his word how much it displeaseth him, that we should be so much our own foes, and unwise for our own good, and that we should by our sins hold so many good things from us.2 For so doth the prophet tell us, that our sins keep many blessings from us. And if they be our sins, that is, our known sins, our wilful sins, and those which are committed through our own default and folly, then let us thank our selves, and let us charge our sins, and not the Lord; in that, while we suffer so great and many troubles by them, we have reaped thereby the just fruit of our own §Klabours. And seeing the sin might and ought to have been avoided; therefore such troubles as they have caused, might also have been prevented.
And as for the troubles which we speake of, let no man thinke that we may reioice in them,1 seeing we are dehorted frō them by the Apostle Peter, saying: Let no man suffer as an euil doer; seeing they are for iust cause vpon vs to vexe & disquiet vs, rather then that they can be any matter of ioy and gladnes to vs, except by godly sorrow they bring vs to repentance, which (alas) is the least §Ipart of their thought who commit them. The Lord taketh no pleasure in seeing vs to trouble our selues, and by our sinnes to bring vexation into our liues; but sheweth vs in his worde how much it displeaseth him, that we should be so much our owne foes, and vnwise for our owne good, and that we should by our sinnes hold so many good things from vs.