A10945:1894
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.
The examples of our Saviour, his Apostles, and other holy martyrs, whom we count blessed which have suffered for a good conscience, have no small force to persuade us. Of our Saviour it is said, when the holy Ghost wisheth Christians to run with patience the race that is set before them:1 Look to Jesus the author and finisher of your faith: who for the joy that was set before him, endured the cross, and despised the shame, and is set at the right hand of the throne of God. Consider therefore him that endured such speaking against of sinners, lest ye should be wearied and faint in your minds. Of the Apostles, Paul writeth this: We are afflicted on every side, 2yet are we not in distress; we are persecuted, but not §Hforsaken; cast down, but we perish not; always delivered to death for Jesus sake, that the life of Jesus may be made manifest in our mortal flesh:3 And again: Chastened, but not killed; sorrowing yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing yet possessing all things. 4Of the Martyrs this is said: They were tried with mockings and scourgings yea moreover by bonds and imprisonment; they were stoned, they were hewen asunder, they were slain with the sword, they wandered up and down in sheep skins and in goat skins, being destitute, afflicted and tormented: whom the world was not worthy of; they wandered in wildernesses, and mountains, and dens and caves of the earth. Oh how should §Ithese glorious examples, with those who suffered death joyfully in our remembrance for the gospel: I say, how should they draw our hearts, and encourage us to set light by our lives, when the Lord will require them at our hands!
The examples of our Sauiour, his Apostles, and other holy martirs, whom we count blessed which haue suffered for a good conscience, haue no small force to perswade vs. Of our Sauiour it is said, when the holy Ghost wisheth Christians to run with patience the race that is set before them: