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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.
not that he knoweth §Dour hearts (for that is proper to God only) but through his long acquaintance with our nature, he conceiveth our intents and purposes, and that oftentimes without signification, either of speech or gesture. And thus he being able to discover the vanity of our minds, by the knowledge of our universal corruption: as he seeth occasion, and whereto we most incline, he suggesteth his temptations to sin and disobedience.
not that he knoweth §Dour hearts (for that is proper to God only) but through his long acquaintance with our nature, he conceiueth our intents and purposes, and that oftentimes without signification, either of speech or gesture. And thus he being able to discouer the vanitie of our minds, by the knowledge of our vniuersall corruption: as he seeth occasion, and whereto we most incline, he suggesteth his temptations to sinne and disobedience.
Now if to these two we add his malice (for he is not called the envious man for naught) and his unsearchable subtlety, and exceeding strength;1 and that which is greater then all the rest, that he most hurteth, when it least appeareth, when we least suspect it: for which cause it is said, that he changeth §Ehimself into an angel of light, 2. Cor. 11.13, 14. we shall not marvel, though without any means, or outward occasions, he raiseth great terror, and dismaidnes, especially the Lord giving him leave so to do, for the good of us which are exercised with them. For besides that,2 we are enticed sometime to the sins, which by nature we love: we are also (especially such as are thus brought low, in the anguish and bitterness of their soul) tempted to such evils as are very strange, and such as we abhor the very least conceit of them;