A10945:1843
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.
But before I go any further, I must here answer an objection. For it will be demanded of me:1 What profit may we reap by the examples before ⟨p. 537⟩§Aalleged? (whereby I proved,2 that deliverances out of adversities & dangers are not privileges, except they have a promise thereof from God before,3 and believe the same:) What is that to us will these men say, forasmuch as God doth not at any time speak unto us, as he did in ages past unto our fathers? Jehoshaphat indeed, they say, might well and easily be persuaded,4 that God would give the Moabites (his enemies) into his hand, when he by his prophet had said to him: To morrow go out against them,5 and the Lord will be with thee. So Joshua, and in like manner Gideon: but where hath God thus spoken to any of his faithfullest servants in this last age of the world, personally or §Bparticularly in trouble (say they) that he will deliver him and remove his afflictions from him? Therefore none of them can be certain thereof, and therefore not so well ordered in their troubles as they were.
But before I goe any further, I must heere answer an obiection. For it wil be demaunded of me:1 What profit may we reape by the examples before ⟨p. 537⟩§Aalleadged? (whereby I prooued,2 that deliuerances out of aduersities & dangers are not priuiledges, except they haue a promise thereof from God before,