A10945:1873
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 if these and such like be not their stops and stays, let not any object and say: that they desire with their hearts to be partakers of this privilege and benefit, if they knew how: for if they were willing to be persuaded, to use those means with that free and ready heart, constantly and daily, which they sometimes are willing to do, their desire should quickly be accomplished, and they made partakers of that which they wish; and that is, always to make reckoning of that to be their chiefest treasure, To grow in grace and in the knowledge §Eof Christ: and therefore without ceasing to keep their hearts unto it,1 and to think there is nothing more to be regarded, nor of greater weight and necessity, then to bestow the day and the several parts of it as they are directed, and as many of them also have done sometime, that they may see themselves to go forward.
But if these and such like be not their stops and staies, let not any obiect and say: that they desire with their hearts to be partakers of this priuiledge and benefit, if they knew how: for if they were willing to be perswaded, to vse those meanes with that free and ready heart, constantly and daily, which they sometimes are willing to doe, their desire should quickely be accomplished, and they made partakers of that which they wish; and that is, alwaies to make reckoning of that to be their chiefest treasure, To grow in grace and in the knowledge §Eof Christ: and therefore without ceasing to keepe their hearts vnto it,1 and to thinke there is nothing more to be regarded, nor of greater weight and necessity, then to bestow the day and the seuerall parts of it as they are directed, and as many of them also haue done sometime, that they may see themselues to goe forward.
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