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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. 5. OF the renouncing of all sin: which is the first effect of a renewed heart in the true believer.§96. h. We must be changed before our lives can be amended. What the life of the believer is.§i. All ungodliness, not some only, is to be renounced.§k. The believer loatheth his former filthy life.§97. a. The power of faith, and gain thereby.§c. The vanity of worldly joys.§98. f. The believer renounceth sin in good advisedness, and not in some good mood only.§h. For want of this settled denying of our selves divers never attain to true godliness.§i. Worst sort of protestants, who hate this doctrine.§99. a. Gods servants are at utter defiance with the world.§b. They leave not sin for a time, nor by constraint, or for company, fear. &c.§c. ⟨image 320⟩They vow and perform.§99. d. Not by their own strength.§e. Their help is from God, attained by faith, waited for by hope. It is got with much striving.§100. f.