A10945:2001
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. 10. The conclusion of the whole Book: containing an exhortation to good and bad.
CHAP. 10. The conclusion of the whole Booke: containing an exhortation to good and bad.
And thus much I have thought good to say of the doubts, objections and cavils which may be raised from or by occasion of the former doctrine, as also of the answers thereto. And now §Bto shut up this Treatise and the whole Book, for conclusion, a few words in the way of exhortation I add both to the godly and godless: and so I end. To them I say this:1 Seeing you have some experience already, that it is no lost labour to live under gods protection and government, but that in serving him devoutly there is great reward, beware ye wax not slack and cold in the course wherein ye have begun. And such of you, as have known this point of trueth, and made conscience of the same to practise it, I mean every day, and throughout the same, to set your selves to walk with God, (which many and those also well minded have not done,) hold on your course and be not weary of well doing; for ye shall §Creap the fruit thereof without weariness:2 ye have borne the greatest brunt already, while living among many Atheists, papists and carnal Gospellers, ye have received their livery and censure, and with all disgrace that might be, (under the Gospel) have reproachfully had the odious names of Precisians and Puritans, Hypocrites and seditious persons, given unto you: but if taunts, mocks, reproaches and discouragements have not turned you out of the way, nor caused you to wax faint in your Christian course, neither let any other thing hereafter unsettle you, but hold out the confidence of your faith, and rejoicing of your hope unto the end: and so doing, I pray God,