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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. 11. How weak faith is confirmed, and the comfort of it.
CHAP. 11. How weake faith is confirmed, and the comfort of it.
And now a little, I will add yet further (as I promised) for the staying and satisfying of those which have attained to lay hold of Gods promises, and have some measure of true §Ifaith, how small so ever it be. They who have tasted how good the Lord is, by any small light of true faith, they find and feel it to be so sweet, that in fear of forgoing and losing it again,1 they desire above all things to know how they may hold and keep it. And it is indeed the most necessary question that they can move. This question I think very fitly to be answered in this place, because it is the doubt of them which are newly borne of God: for otherwise of the daily and continual growing in faith, it is more fitly to be spoken of in another place, where I shall speak of the new life, and the holy course of such as are the Lords people already. Therefore to this question, it is thus to be answered,§K that as they came by that little measure, which they have by this means, that they were led by God to think it the most precious jewel in the world; of the which when they were persuaded, they thought it no pain by hearing,2 meditating, and praying to seek to believe: even so let them settle, and accustom themselves to do still.
ANd now a little, I will adde yet further (as I promised) for the staying and satisfying of those which haue attained to lay hold of Gods promises, and haue some measure of true