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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.
6 By this, ill tidings are not feared, afflictions are not heard: But from impatience and ire, hereby we are preserved.
6 By this, ill tidings are not fear'd, afflictions are not heard: But from impatience and ire, hereby we are preseru'd.
7 By meditation and reading, with prayer annexed thereto, We make our gain of that which we are loth once to forgo.
7 By meditation and reading, with prayer annext thereto, We make our gaine of that which we are loth once to forgo.
8 It maketh us a savour sweet in places where we come; That some are gained to God thereby, and folly hath no room.
8 It maketh vs a sauour sweet in places where we come; That some are gain'd to God thereby, and folly hath no roome.