A10945:1834
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.
These therefore I exhort to consider with no worse minds than I have written it, what hath been said: and the Lord give them grace so to do: yea, and let such godly Christians whose teeth yet do sometime water at the dainties of those, though they see what sorrow and reproach they sustain for them, §Ethank God heartily that they taste not of such poisoned dainties with them.
These therefore I exhort to consider with no worse minds than I haue written it, what hath beene said: and the Lord giue them grace so to doe: yea, and let such godly Christians whose teeth yet do sometime water at the dainties of those, though they see what sorrow and reproch they susteine for them, §Ethanke God heartily that they taste not of such poisoned dainties with them.
But now that I have showed, how the Lord doth preserve them from sundry, yea infinite troubles,1 who set their hearts to walk with him in one thing as in another, (behold, such honour and prerogatives his servants may have) I cannot pass by the devilish (and yet foolish) policy of some who do shun to be religious of purpose, because they would be void of sorrow and trouble. They sing the song of the rich man in S. Luke, that in their life time they will ⟨p. 534⟩have their pleasure whatsoever it cost them when their reckoning cometh §Fin:2 and of the Epicure; Let us eat and drink, &c. and say with the young man in Ecclesiastes: 3They will rejoice in their youth, and enjoy the delights of sin, though it be but for a season. But they mark not that answer to him in the Gospel: Thou in thy life time receivedst thy pleasure, therefore now thou art tormented; nor to the young man, by the Preacher, what was said: Know, that for all these things, God will bring thee to judgement. No such thing (I say) they do consider; but all that they observe, is this: How the better that men are for the most part, the less they are set by, as it is said: I have seen the just to perish in his justice: and the less men fashion themselves after this present world, the