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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
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And that the Lord giveth his beloved ones such bold and free access to him, to know his mind toward them,1 and to have this holy acquaintance with him (which can hardly be persuaded to the weak in faith, at their first coming to him) hereby it may appear, that he saith, he will not count them §Cas servants, but as friends, with whom he will communicate his very secrets, as far as shall be expedient for ••em to know them: and as Paul saith; God of his rich mercy hath loved us through much love. God saith, they are as the apple of his eye, and therefore dear unto him: he telleth them that he hath taken from them the spirit of bondage, that they should no longer be afraid of him, 2but serve him without fear: and to rejoice in him always: which cannot be, except they knew his mind, and affection to them, yea and that more clearly then the son can know his fathers, or the wife her husbands mind. And therefore if they who have begun to lay hold on eternal life through believing, should by some occasion lose the feeling comfort of their faith; as by Satan's §Dfearing them, with their coldness, falls, weaknesses, or such like: yet are not they to give place unto doubting; especially being such as have felt assuredly the love of God by Christ shed into their hearts: 3but to count it their frailty and timorousness, and that without cause; even for that they were not better acquainted with the will of God, who loveth to the end all such as he hath once loved.
And that the Lord giueth his beloued ones such bold and free accesse to him, to know his minde toward them,1 and to haue this holie acquaintance with him (which can hardly be perswaded to the weake in faith, at their first comming to him) hereby it may appeare, that he saith, he will not count them §Cas seruants, but as friends, with whom he will communicate his very secrets, as farre as shall be expedient for em to know them: and as Paul saith; God of his rich mercie hath loued vs thrgh much loue. God saith, they are as the apple of his eye, and therefore deare vnto him: he telleth them that hee hath taken from them the spirit of bondage, that they should no longer be afraid of him,