A10945:1874
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. 13. Of the ninth privilege: That the believers shall persevere unto the end.
CHAP. 13. Of the ninth priuiledge: That the beleeuers shall perseuere vnto the end.
Now out of this proceedeth another as necessarily, as it self ariseth out of the former; and that is, Perseverance unto the end, and continuance in faith and repentance. For as he which groweth §Bto excel himself in all goodness, must first of necessity make a beginning, & be rooted & well settled therein▪ so he which increaseth daily more and more, shall at length make a good end, proportionable at least unto his course of life. For the faithful Christian having obtained of the Lord a delight in his service,1 and by the same a proceeding from grace to grace; he maketh an easy way for him to perseverance, granting this unto him as another privilege: That he shall not revolt and turn aside with the workers of iniquity, but shall hold out in this holy course unto his end. This appeareth to be true by the Scripture which saith:2 He which hath begun this good work in his, will also finish and make an end of the same. §CAgreeable hereunto is that saying of our Saviour:3 This is the Fathers will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me, I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And again: None shall take them out of my hands. Therefore if God will finish the work that he hath begun in his children, if he will keep them safe until all danger be past; that is, to the day of the resurrection; and if none shall take them out of his hands: it is manifest that all such as are grafted into Christ by faith, and who have been effectually called into the number of Gods children through the preaching of the Gospel unto the sure and certain hope of eternal life, setting their faces daily toward the same; shall be safely conducted home, and abide in the same