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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. 12. The sweet fruit and benefit of the preserving and confirming of our faith.
CHAP. 12. The sweete fruite and benefit of the preseruing and confirming of our faith.
Now if any think the looking to these means, and this daily diligence for the preserving of faith to be overmuch, let them understand, that the benefit is most great which it bringeth. And if this answereth them not, let them hear the Apostle,1 who saith, that our faith consisteth not in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God: as if he should say, that §Kit is not a matter so soon wrought, as it is said to be in us, but a gift wrought by God, and therefore (by seeking it, as he hath appointed) and to be nourished, and continued, as he hath prescribed, which is by oft recourse to God, and much searching out of our hearts for and about the same. And therefore (as I have said) if men make it not the chiefest of all other things, as it is in it self,2 and hold it fast, as the first and principal: it is not their hearing▪ ⟨p. 69⟩§Aand reading about it, nor their talking of it, that shall be able to profit them. I will rehearse a speech of a godly Christian preacher, and one that deserved to be heard, whom I have oft been present with, when he uttered the same.