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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…

Name: Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…
Author: Richard Rogers

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.

Richard Rogers 1550?–1618London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1603

[24], 18 p., 19-20 leaves, 21-480 p., 484-490 leaves, 489 [i.e. 491]-599, [33] p. · 388k words · STC 21215 · ESTC S116354

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Treatise 2 › Chapter 2: That a godly life cannot be without unfeigned faith; nor this faith without it: which is…Treatise 2 › Chapter 2: That a godly life cannot be without vnfained faith; nor this faith without it: which is…

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Thus, having showed what the sum of this treatise is, and the order and parts of it, I will now proceed: and first, seeing I have taken in hand to describe the life of the believer, and what the godly life is, which he must lead:§G I will endeavour my self to help and direct him herein; as God hath enabled me, that as in the former treatise he may prove and see himself to have faith to be saved, so he may learn by this, to join with his faith, godliness.

THus, hauing shewed what the summe of this treatise is, and the order and parts of it, I will now proceede: and first, seeing I haue taken in hand to describe the life of the beleeuer, and what the godly life is, which he must leade:§G I will indeuour my selfe to helpe and direct him herein; as God hath inabled me, that as in the former treatise he may proue and see himselfe to haue faith to be saued, so he may learne by this, to ioyne with his faith, godlines.

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But before I lay forth this godly life at large, in this chapter, I will begin with the first point of the first general part of this treatise, that is, that seeing godliness cannot be without justifying faith, but springeth and ariseth from it, as the branch from the tree;¹ for so Saint James saith, Show me thy faith by thy works: therefore where no true justifying faith is, there can be no godly life. And so he,² who is no true believer, cannot have any sparkle of godliness in §Hhim; but is utterly destitute, and void thereof, even altogether ungodly, as the Apostle writeth: We all had our conversation sometime as other disobedient men, in the lusts of our flesh, doing those things which liked us: where we see, that this was the life of all, even the best, to be strangers to the life of godliness, and the children of wrath, before they believed,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Rogers 1550?–1618

Place

London

Printer

Felix Kyngston

Bookseller

Thomas Man

Year

1603

Size

[24], 18 p., 19-20 leaves, 21-480 p., 484-490 leaves, 489 [i.e. 491]-599, [33] p.

Words

387,941

Catalogue

STC 21215 · ESTC S116354

Text

EEBO-TCP A10945

Passages

2,090

Sections

166

Title page

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…

CHAP. 3. That for the leading of a godly life, is required faith in the temporal promises of God, and hearty assent and credit to the commandments also, and threatenings in the word of God, as well as faith to be saved.

CHAP. 3. That for the leading of a godly life, is required faith in the temporall promises of God, and hartie assent and credit to the commaundements also, and threatnings in the word of God, as well as faith to be saued.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. 3. That for the leading of a godly life, is required faith in the temporal promises of God, and hearty assent and credit to the commandments also, and threatenings in the word of God, as well as faith to be saved.

CHAP. 3. That for the leading of a godly life, is required faith in the temporall promises of God, and hartie assent and credit to the commaundements also, and threatnings in the word of God, as well as faith to be saued.

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