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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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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.
Now I have showed, that true justifying faith and a godly life, must of necessity go together, and that the one cannot §Bbe without the other: I will go to the second point in this first general head or part; and prove that it is necessary to the leading of a godly life, to believe and give credit to the whole doctrine of the word of God, to be led and guided thereby, as well as to have faith in the promises of salvation, and forgiveness of sins. This I say therefore,1 that he which believeth in Christ to salvation, must not stay himself and rest therein only, as though he were given unto us of his father to be our righteousness only, and to make for us a way to eternal life: but to be our wisdom also, to make us wise; our sanctification, to make us holy, and also our redemption and deliverance, to rid us in his good time, §Cfrom all calamities and miseries, which here befall us: This, he that truly believeth, must be persuaded of: and that all the promises of this life,