A10945:2032
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.
18 Indeed it doth require the heart from evil to be brought, That lovers of pleasures more than God, may come to better thought:
18 Indeed it doth require the heart from euill to be brought, That louers of pleasures more than God, may come to better thought:
19 I mean, that they may sin abhor of every loathsome kind: And that their chiefest joy may be, from thence to wean their mind:
19 I meane, that they may sin abhorre of euery loathsome kind: And that their chiefest ioy may be, from thence to weane their mind:
19 And with no less delight of heart they wisdom may embrace, Till godliness hath got in them a room and settled place.
19 And with no lesse delight of heart they wisdome may imbrace, Till godlinesse hath got in them a roome and setled place.