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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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But though all, who have hope to be saved, should do this;1 yet it is manifest, they do not. They make not conscience of many sins: they look §Enot to many promises; they fear not many threats: all which do much testify against them, that they be not so well fenced, as they might be: and by means hereof, they hold even the promise of salvation it self more weakly. And this cometh to pass the more commonly,2 that they be no better stablished and rooted in the truth to believe it, because these things (as they be worthiest and most excellent) so they be not plainly, soundly, and thoroughly beaten into the people, and that again and again, till they ⟨p. 80⟩that are willing,3 have them for their own. And another cause is, for that the §Fpeople, who have some taste of this doctrine, namely, how they should join good life with their faith, take not pain, when they have been well taught them, to call them to mind and digest them: only they have pieces and fragments of many good points, but rarely it shall be found, that one Christian among many groweth to see this, which I now speak of, by teaching; much less hath it in use and practise for his own: that is, to give credit to one part of the word as well as to another; and not every one to take that which liketh him.
But though all, who haue hope to be saued, should doe this;1 yet it is manifest, they doe not. They make not conscience of many sinnes: they looke §Enot to many promises; they feare not many threats: all which doe much testifie against them, that they be not so well fenced, as they might be: and by meanes hereof, they holde euen the promise of saluation it selfe more weakely. And this commeth to passe the more commonly,2