A10945:1835
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. 10. Of the second branch of this privilege, concerning the afflictions of the faithful: namely, That God delivereth them out of many, when the wicked still remain in theirs.
CHAP. 10. Of the second branch of this priuiledge, concerning the afflictions of the faithfull: namely, That God deliuereth them out of manie, when the wicked still remaine in theirs.
The second point is, that they may also assure themselves, that the Lord will deliver them (and that of very favour) out of many troubles, though they see not how: even as I have showed, §Cthat some shall not touch them at all. For although they themselves see not how, nor any other likelihood but that they shall long oppress them, yea utterly consume them; yet even then doth the Lord know how to deliver them, and hath many ways, which we could not see, to rid them out of so great calamities: and so he doeth,1 either before they have long lien upon them, or at least, before they have been driven to any extremity by them, and before they have had their course; as in the deliverances of David, mentioned 1. Sam. 19.20.23.24. & 26. chapters throughout, is to be seen. And this he doth as oft as it is expedient:2 when in the mean season he dealeth not so with the unbelievers, but when the other escape, they come §Dmany times in their room, as the wise man saith: The godly escape out of trouble by the Lords delivering of them, and the wicked are come in their stead. Now for proof of that which I said [that God delivereth them out of many] what is more plain then that which the prophet saith: