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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.
And as great folly it is, to hope that punishments and fearful and troublesome times here, shall pass as they have done, even like unto a shower of rain. But as Noah told the people of the old world, that when God meant to §Gbring the flood that should cover the earth, it should rain without intermission forty days and forty nights; which the people thought would not have been so,1 but it did come to pass: even so, when God will bring their destruction, it shall come swiftly as a whirlwind, and consume them utterly, as the fire doth the stubble, before it make an end. And as Nebuchadnezzar had twelve months granted him to repent in, but at the end of them, when he went forward in his sin, even while he was priding himself in his great Babel, the same hour he heard Gods sentence on him, and had it executed; that he was driven from men, and did eat grass as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown as eagles feathers, and his §Hnails as birds claws: so God will surely come and not delay, at his appointed time, and do as he hath said, to the sons of men who are workers of iniquity, and they shall not escape: and in the mean season their damnation sleepeth not.
And as great folly it is, to hope that punishments and fearefull and troublesome times heere, shall passe as they haue done, euen like vnto a shower of raine. But as Noah told the people of the old world, that when God meant to §Gbring the flood that should couer the earth, it should raine without intermission forty daies and forty nights; which the people thought would not haue beene so,1 but it did come to passe: euen so, when God will bring their destruction, it shall come swiftly as a whirlewinde, and consume them vtterly, as the fire doth the stuble, before it make an end. And as Nabuchadnezzar had twelue moneths granted him to repent in, but at the end of them, when he went forward in his sinne, euen while he was priding himselfe in his great Babel, the same houre he heard Gods sentence on him, and had it executed; that he was driuen from men, and did eate grasse as the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heauen, till his haires were growen as eagles feathers, and his