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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.
This it is, that killeth the heart of right good christians, when they are ignorant of it, and when they be not well grounded in it, and throughly persuaded of it, that God will make them able and fit for so great a work, as the leading of a godly life is: even like the burden of the Israelites, who were enjoined their task of brick that they had made in times past, 1(which work was hard enough) and yet themselves to seek and provide their straw. This, I am sure, hath troubled many,2 who yet were willing and ready to do any duties required of them, and hath been the cause why they have gone about the several §Kactions of their life, the bearing of their trouble, and the offering up of their prayers, the more deadly and uncheerfully; and therefore the more aukely and wearisomely.
This it is, that killeth the heart of right good christians, when they are ignorant of it, and when they be not well grounded in it, and throughly perswaded of it, that God will make them able and fit for so great a worke, as the leading of a godly life is: euen like the burthen of the Israelites, who were inioyned their taske of bricke that they had made in times past, 1(which worke was hard enough) and yet themselues to seeke and prouide their strawe. This, I am sure, hath troubled many,2 who yet were willing and readie to doe any duties required of them, and hath been the cause why they haue gone about the seuerall §Kactions of their life, the bearing of their trouble, and the offering vp of their prayers, the more deadly and vncheerefullie; and therefore the more aukely and wearisomely.
- 1Exod. 5.11.
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