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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.
CHAP. 4. The second general head of this treatise. Of the heart.§h. The heart the fountain of godly life, must first be purged.§87. a. Like heart, like life.§b. The heart is a dungeon of iniquity.§d. A simile.§88. f. A view of the filthiness of the heart. Men see it not, and therefore suspect no danger.§i. What the purging of the heart is.§k. He that dieth in a weak estate shall be saved.§89. c. Holy desires be oft times quenched in the believer. How to revive them.§d. How the heart is purged.§e. By the power of the holy ghost. This is at the first turning of a sinner to God.§90. g. Even this is a gracious work.§h. We must not stand at a stay in this.§i. The heart is purged by faith.§91. a. Worldly delights so sought for because the heavenly are not felt.§c. So soon as any are assured of Gods favour, so soon are their hearts changed.§92. f.