A10945:1944
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.
For from whence are there so many heavinesses, complaints of unsettledness, §Binconstancy, yea & halting with God, but from hence in great part, that they do quench the work of Gods spirit in themselves, & cannot tell how to quicken up themselves again, nor to arise when they are fallen, & to return when they are gone out of the way, nor to guide themselves from one duty to another?
For from whence are there so many heauinesses, complaints of vnsetlednes, §Binconstancy, yea & halting with God, but frō hence in great part, that they do quench the worke of Gods spirit in themselues, & cannot tel how to quicken vp themselues againe, nor to arise when they are fallen, & to return when they are gone out of the way, nor to guide themselues from one duty to another?
I know that it is not the virtue, nor the power of outward means using, nor of any direction that can bring our lives in frame: but yet for all that,1 when they are reverently and confidently used, God hath promised that it shall not be in vain, but they shall avail much to our benefit. What meant the Lord Jesus else, to charge us to watch & pray, to hear and read? and the Apostle also, in the name of God to exhort us, whiles we are in this warfare of the world to §Chave always our complete & full armour, & not to walk naked & hang that upon the wall, but that we should daily gird it unto us, & suffer no day to pass in the which we should walk without it? and to what other end tendeth this direction, which I am now occupied about? For if every day & oft in the day we look not carefully that we be armed with it, let us look for no other from him who is our professed enemy, (& as able to hurt us, as willing and watching for it) let us look for no other (I say) but to be dangerously foiled,