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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 if they can be certified, that the spirit of God since, and through their hearing of his Gospel preached unto them, hath shed such grace into their harts, as to make them partakers of the fruits thereof, they shall not need to be troubled about the other: and if they contrariwise find that they do yet §Gwant these, they must fully purpose to seek for them; and not to feed themselves with a vain and a deceitful hope, stayed upon no good ground nor foundation at all.
And if they can be certified, that the spirit of God since, and through their hearing of his Gospel preached vnto them, hath shed such grace into their harts, as to make them partakers of the fruites thereof, they shall not neede to bee troubled about the other: and if they contrariwise finde that they doe yet §Gwant these, they must fully purpose to seeke for them; and not to feed themselues with a vaine and a deceitfull hope, staied vpon no good ground nor foundation at all.
And here I must further require, that such as, to whom God giveth any work of his spirit, and whose hearts he seasoneth with good affections and desires through the Gospel, so as they sensibly feel themselves to look after eternal life, that they would cherish, and make much of these holy sparks of grace kindled within them: and whiles they be warm in them, to blow them up every while, with the bellows of fervent prayer, and to inflame them by acquaintance, company, and conference with such, as in §Hwhom they see God hath wrought the same things before them; and in greater measure, then in themselves: always highly reverencing Gods gifts in them,1 that they may the sooner come by them: and that the things which they see but dimly, they may behold more clearly, and their doubts may be resolved to them, and they may find comfortable encouragement to go forward.