A10945:1908
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
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As for the further describing of it by the particular kinds of pleasures §6and delights to the body and every part of it and every sense pertaining to it; and to the soul likewise: (which some have taken upon them to affirm and set out, the Lord having said no such thing himself of the kinds of pleasures which are to be enjoyed there:) I leave it as a bold conjecture of mans brain:1 §Eand fitter for the popish clergy to teach to their superstitious company: who as their whole form of their worshipping of God is outward, gross and carnal, with Sonnets and sounds to please the ear, and prayer-like sights to delight the eye; but that worship which is in spirit and truth, is not in use with them: so they imagine as grossly of the delights which are in heaven; that part of them are in the exceeding sweetness to the sense of smelling, marvellous pleasure to the sense of tasting, and so of handling they speak answerably. ⟨p. 562⟩I will not (I say) wade further then I may wade safely; what the §Fkinds and variety of pleasures are particularly which the righteous are partakers of, the Lord hath not revealed unto me, and therefore I am not ashamed to say,2 I know not: It is enough, that I am sure they are so great and many, that they cannot be once thought of according to their worthiness, no not of the wisest, who can see furthest and enter most deeply into matters.
As for the further describing of it by the particular kindes of pleasures §6and delights to the body and euery part of it and euery sense partaining to it; and to the soule likewise: (which some haue taken vpon them to affirme and set out, the Lord hauing said no such thing himselfe of the kinds of pleasures which are to be inioied there:) I leaue it as a bold coniecture of mans braine:1 §E