A10945:1962
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.
whereas on the other side, such as rise early and go late to bed, break their sleep often, and fare hardly and barely, (which sort use most means to be rich,1 and are most like to get the same) yet not attempting these things through Gods help, not usually and oft craving his grace and direction, not having their minds seasoned with piety and the fear of God, not being patient, sober-minded, and watchful against the evils which will meet with them,§G but profane, rash and worldly; cannot find Gods blessing in their course. If they gain and gather, they may (I deny not) flourish and prosper in the world a while; yet is all but as Judas his sop, and the Israelites quails, to become bane and poison unto them: the Lord hath heaped hot coals upon their heads, and increaseth their damnation thereby the more swiftly; and ofttimes,2 they are needy (that is, unsatisfied) for all their shifts, & therefore never the richer: and many of them poor indeed, putting their money into a bottomless purse, and that although they toil for much, yet enjoy nothing. Which kind of men provide ill for themselves many other ways, in omitting the chief duties which appertain to them; for they fill their lives with much §Hunquietness, frettings, impatience, quarrels, cursings and such like: and when death cometh, (although they be little thought on in the mean season) these things will grow to some hard reckoning: and in such the proverb is verified, That though they be early up, yet are they never the near. For what pleasure doth God take in their toiling, when they go to it like swine, not beginning, proceeding and ending in him, that is, by his direction?
whereas on the other side, such as rise early and goe late to bed, breake their sleepe often, and fare hardly and barely, (which sort vse most meanes to be rich,1 and are most like to get the same) yet not attempting these things through Gods helpe, not vsually and oft crauing his grace and direction, not hauing their mindes seasoned with piety and the feare of God, not being patient, sober-minded, and watchfull against the euils which will meet with them,