A10945:1889
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 corrupt and slothful flesh should think it great gain to accept of life in that danger through denying Christ and renouncing the trueth,1 we should consider, what anguish we should live in and what a hell, when we have deprived our selves of all comfort from God, as having renounced him; and when we could not live but with those, who suppressing and persecuting godliness, §Bmust needs make our life more tedious and uncomfortable then any death: which being considered, what joy (think we) is this to a godly soul, to see that day when an end of all miseries is come? when he seeing that his departure is at hand, may say: This day is that,2 which is better to me then all that are past, seeing I am now going into everlasting glory?
But if corrupt and slougthfull flesh should thinke it great gaine to accept of life in that danger through denying Christ and renouncing the trueth,1 we should consider, what anguish we should liue in and what a hell, when we haue depriued our selues of all comfort from God, as hauing renounced him; and when we could not liue but with those, who suppressing and persecuting godlinesse, §Bmust needs make our life more tedious and vncomfortable then any death: which being considered, what ioy (thinke we) is this to a godly soule, to see that day when an end of all miseries is come? when he seeing that his departure is at hand, may say: This day is that,2 which is better to me then all that are past, seeing I am now going into euerlasting glory?