A10945:1967
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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CHAP. 6. Of the doubts and objections which weak Christians ought to propound, until they be satisfied; namely, how they may attain to such direction daily: and §Canswer thereto: and other like, namely, that they count it hard: and what such ought to do.
CHAP. 6. Of the doubts and obiections which weake Christians ought to propound, vntill they be satisfied; namely, how they may atteine to such direction daily: and §Canswer thereto: and other like, namely, that they count it hard: and what such ought to do.
But as I have said before, (to let these cavils go, as not fit to trouble them who would do well) I think these and the like,1 the meetest objections for such as are willing to learn: first,2 that they see not how they might be able to attain to the practise of any good and Christian direction, and constantly keep the same: and secondly, how they may, because they are unacquainted with it, be armed with patience against the mocks and discouragements §Dof such as might dismay them from it. For the first, it is meet, that such as shall learn and practise it, be willing and desirous of it:3 which they may easily see cause of, if they consider what unsettledness is in their lives, and what unfitness of mind to serve God, when they have not by some good order taking for the same, resolved and accustomed themselves thereunto, that is, to walk with God every day; and how much they are the worse, when they have not done so, but neglected the same. Also it helpeth much hereto, that they make this account with themselves, that they deal about nothing of such value or importance in the world, as ought by right to hinder or draw them from it.