A10945:1841
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 yet I would all should know, that I do not bring these, as I might many others to this end, only that I might prove that God hath delivered his children out of troubles:1 for so hath he done the wicked also (as Ishmael in the wilderness, and the Philistines from Saul:) neither is that the thing which either I intend; or if I did, were that any privilege or peculiar blessing to the godly, forasmuch as the wicked may have their part in it as well as they: But I bring these examples to prove,2 that Gods people may be sure that he will of fatherly love deliver them from many, namely, when they have sought §Hunto God in their troubles (to God, I say, and not to creatures;) assuring themselves,3 that as it is he that hath smitten them, so he shall heal them. And in that they have used those means for their deliverance,4 which God hath taught them to use, namely, fasting and prayer with confidence, as Mordecai, Jehoshaphat, and in that they have rested upon God, as they did in the Psalm 124.5 8. & 20.7, and not on a bruised reed, as oft-times Israel did; and in that when they do look for deliverance certainly, they have first a promise thereof from God,6 as Joshua had against the king of Hazor and his company; and Gideon against the Amalekites and the Midianites: when they do (I say) obtain deliverance thus, and after this manner, this is a singular §Iprivilege unto them: for then they know that it cometh from God, and therefore they may have great comfort therein, and receive such deliverances as pledges of his favour.