A10945:1924
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.
1And as for such as think, that it is weak rejoicing, that is and may be accompanied with so many afflictions, as our life is subject to: they must know, that such corrections are seen by our heavenly father to be meet for us, and to keep us from vain and deceitful rejoicings; and that these fatherly chastisements §Ido not take away this heavenly comfort from us, but they rather cause it to be seen a greater benefit, then without them we could easily be able to perceive.
1And as for such as thinke, that it is weake reioicing, that is and may be accompanied with so many afflictions, as our life is subiect to: they must know, that such corrections are seene by our heauenly father to be meete for vs, and to keepe vs from vaine and deceitfull reioicings; and that these fatherly chastisements §Idoe not take away this heauenly comfort from vs, but they rather cause it to be seene a greater benefit, then without them we could easily be able to perceiue.
- 1Afflictions accompany the dear children of God, not that they can or do extinguish this joy, but to keep them from all vain and deceitful rejoicing.Afflictions accompany the deare children of God, not that they can or doe extinguish this ioy, but to keepe them from all vaine and deceitfull reioicing.
Others object thus: Are there so many commodities in the christian life? How cometh it to pass then,1 that they show it not forth, and that the godly of all sorts, poor and rich, one and other, do not let their light so shine among men, that they may cause them by seeing such admirable things in them as are not to be found commonly in the world beside, to ask & haste after them? For where are they (say these Objectors) which have so much grace appearing in them above other men? In their dealings we find it not: in their