A10945:1858
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. 12. Of the eighth privilege: Of growing in grace.
CHAP. 12. Of the eighth priuiledge: Of growing in grace.
Now as it cannot be denied but that these forementioned graces are singular privileges: so (to pass the next) we are not to be §Bignorant of this, that whatsoever good things Gods people already have and enjoy; yet God hath more in store for them,1 and will give more grace and greater measure of his heavenly gifts, then they before they had them, could either ask or think. And this is worthy to be considered with the former, as a further increase and higher degree of the fruits of his love, that he doth so largely and bountifully reach out his hand unto them, that thereby they may be enriched as far beyond the beginnings of their true happiness, as their beginnings were beyond their first condition before it in the judgement of all men.
NOw as it cannot be denied but that these forementioned graces are singular priuiledges: so (to passe the next) we are not to be §Bignorant of this, that whatsoeuer good things Gods people already haue and inioy; yet God hath more in store for them,1 and will giue more grace and greater measure of his heauenly gifts, then they before they had them, could either aske or thinke. And this is woorthy to be considered with the former, as a further increase and higher degree of the fruits of his loue, that he doth so largely and bountifully reach out his hand vnto them, that thereby they may be inriched as farre beyond the beginnings of their true happines, as their beginnings were beyond their first condition before it in the iudgement of all men.