A10945:1963
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.
CHAP. 5. §EOf an answer to another reason against daily directing of us: That it would break off all society and fellowship amongst men.
CHAP. 5. §EOf an answer to another reason against daily directing of vs: That it would breake off all societie and fellowship amongst men.
Another reason why men cannot follow any direction daily, as is required, is this: They say, that it would be no world, if all men should be brought to such a mopish life: they mean, there should be no familiarity nor good fellowship amongst men; one should have no dealings with another; and so in ⟨p. 578⟩time,1 traffic and merchandise would fail: and by means hereof, leaving of §Emens callings, disobedience to prince and laws, poverty, complaints, and such like would ensue and follow: and the least evil which were like to come of this new devised fantasy (they say) would be very monkery. This objection I do not think to arise or proceed from such as know what the godly life meaneth: but lest it being cast in the teeth of some weak Christians, that this is the fruit of these fantasies and revelations, which they call Godliness, and so hereby some might be troubled, I will answer it therefore. Whereas they say, it would be a strange world, if men could be brought so far from the corrupt and profane fashion of the common sort, that they would submit §G