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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 3: That for the leading of a godly life, is required faith in the temporal promises of Go…Treatise 2 › Chapter 3: That for the leading of a godly life, is required faith in the temporall promises of Go…

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And this doctrine, because it is occupied about the promises of this life, and the commandments of God, which are to guide us to full sanctification here, I did not therefore join it with my discourse of faith in the former treatise; but referred it to this place as the fittest, where I teach how to live godly: to the attaining whereof, the believing, that I have spoken of, is a special help and furtherance. And so I wish the christian reader to mark well that which I say about this matter: for it is one of the hardest points in all christianity to practise, and one of the darkest to conceive and see into, and §Eto be rightly persuaded of, and settled in: and a point in deed less stood upon and taught and made clear by Preachers themselves, in their Sermons and Catechizings; and yet our living by faith, throughout our whole life, which is the fruit of it, is as plainly taught and brought to light in the Scriptures, as any need to desire it: and namely in those places to the Hebrews and the Galatians: one, The just shall live by faith: the other, I live no longer, ¹but Christ in me, and the life that I lead is by faith in the Son of God. As if they both ⟨p. 82⟩should say; Christ by his spirit doth draw his faithful ones to be led and guided §Fby the word of truth which he hath set down to them: and they desire no other life, then that which there they are moved and persuaded unto, whether we mean the commandments or promises.

And this doctrine, because it is occupied about the promises of this life, and the commandements of God, which are to guide vs to full sanctification here, I did not therefore ioyne it with my discourse of faith in the former treatise; but referred it to this place as the fittest, where I teach how to liue godly: to the attaining whereof, the beleeuing, that I haue spoken of, is a speciall helpe and furtherance. And so I wish the christian reader to marke well that which I say about this matter: for it is one of the hardest points in all christianitie to practise, and one of the darkest to conceiue and see into, and §Eto be rightly perswaded of, and setled in: and a point in deed lesse stoode vpon and taught and made cleere by Preachers themselues, in their Sermons and Catechizings; and yet our liuing by faith, throughout our whole life, which is the fruit of it, is as plainely taught and brought to light in the Scriptures, as any need to desire it: and namely in those places to the Hebrues and the Galathians: one, The iust shall liue by faith: the other, I liue no longer,

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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. 4. Of the heart, and how it should be cleansed and changed, and so the whole man which is true sanctification, tending to repentance and a godly life.

CHAP. 4. Of the heart, and how it should be clensed and changed, and so the whole man which is true sanctification, tending to repentance and a godly life.

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. 4. Of the heart, and how it should be cleansed and changed, and so the whole man which is true sanctification, tending to repentance and a godly life.

CHAP. 4. Of the heart, and how it should be clensed and changed, and so the whole man which is true sanctification, tending to repentance and a godly life.

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