A10945:1844
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.
I answer:1 That God doth not indeed speak to us after that manner that he did to our fathers, as we are certified in the epistle to the Hebrews;2 but hath left his whole mind to us in his word, wherein he hath so fully declared his will in all things as is sufficient, and in the weightiest matters he hath spoken as plainly to us as to them. And concerning this one thing, namely,3 of delivering us out of distresses and afflictions: if they be inward (as sins and corruptions) he hath promised (if we believe the same) that he will give §Cus grace to mortify our sin; and if we do not overcome and subdue the same as we would, yet that his grace shall be sufficient for us: and the best of our forefathers had no more. If they be outward visitations, and crosses, as sicknesses, poverty. &c. he hath promised also, that if it be expedient and for the best to us he will pull us out of them;4 and howsoever he do in our sufferings, that which he doth, shall be the best for us. And there was no other thing said to the body of the church in the former •g•s, but general promises which were made to all the faithful (excepting that for some especial causes some particular promise of deliverance was made to some certain persons, and for weighty causes; and yet those were not made for all times,5 nor in all §Dtroubles:) as may be seen by the answer of David, who being driven out of Jerusalem by his son Absalom rising up against him most traitorously & unnaturally, said unto Zadok the priest, Carry the ark of God again into the city: If I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and the tabernacle thereof: but if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good in his eyes.