A10945:1885
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.
Which I do not speak, as minding in the least manner to move men to think, that it is but a light and small matter to cut off unnaturally the natural life,1 which God as a most singular earthly benefit hath given: for as it is fearful so much as to hear it named; so all they that do it, being in perfect remembrance and knowing what they do, shall be sure to smart for it, as for committing the highest degree of murder.
Which I doe not speake, as minding in the least manner to mooue men to thinke, that it is but a light and small matter to cut off vnnaturally the naturall life,1 which God as a most singular earthly benefit hath giuen: for as it is fearefull so much as to heare it named; so all they that doe it, being in perfect remembrance and knowing what they doe, shall be sure to smart for it, as for committing the highest degree of murther.
- 1He that doth so advisedly, is a murderer in the highest degree.He that doth so aduisedly, is a murtherer in the highest degree.
But as no man blameth a young infant, nor rateth it for casting the hat or coat into the fire, as he would a child of five or six years of age; the one having sufficient discretion to know it doth evil, the other not: so it is with the two kinds of people, which may possibly deprive themselves of life: the one knoweth what he doth, and therefore shall be sure to pay dear for it; the other doth not: and having before that pang and distraction in times past witnessed an holy and christian heart by an unrebukeable conversation, he is not to be judged according to that one action, the which he always abhorred when he had perfect and sound remembrance; and when he did it, did he knew not what.