A10945:1864
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.
1Which thing may lively be seen in Moses example, if we compare the time wherein God did first call him to go to Pharaoh to bring away his people from the bondage and slavery in the which he held them in Egypt, with the days which came after, when he brought them from thence. For when he should first go, he showed great weakness to be in him; himself an unmeet person to go before a king;2 and the burden too great for him to go under; as by his own words may appear when he saith: Who am I, that thou shouldest send me unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring the children of Israel out of Egypt? But §Gafterwards, how boldly did he his message unto the king, neither fearing his threats nor countenance:3 but rather (as it plainly appeareth) Pharaoh was sore afraid of him; as in that he confessed to him (in great anguish of heart) his sin, and desired that he would sue unto the Lord for him (acknowledging that he could much prevail with him) that his plagues might cease. Behold herein one of the greatest matters (as is the fear and face of princes:) he which was afraid to look Pharaoh in the face at the first; was afterward, through strength of faith by cleaving to the Lords commandment and promise, able to do his message to him with exceeding courage & boldness. And if in this one grace and gift of God he so increased, (which of all other seemeth the hardest) thereby §Hovercoming that timorousness and faint heartednesse which would (if it had not been by spiritual manhood and courage expelled) have made him utterly unfit for the discharging of so weighty a duty; what doubt is there, but that in other graces of God he increased also proportionably? Which doth further confirm that which I have taken in hand to show: that is, that the Lord giveth that grace unto his beloved, from which they were most far off both in their own sight and in the judgement of others, and therefore (as I have said) more then they sometime could ask or look for.
1Which thing may liuely be seene in Moses example, if we compare the time wherein God did first call him to goe to Pharao to bring away his people from the bondage and slauerie in the which he held them in Egypt, with the daies which came after, when he brought them from thence. For when he should first goe, he shewed great weaknesse to be in him; himselfe an vnmeet person to go before a king;