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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.
And this I wish, that ye be not of the mind that some have been of (for it is no opinion fit for the Minister of God) that is to say, that they think, though some preach by experience, yet no man is bound to do so: as though §Git were in mens choice to do which they list; when we know, that the good shepherd doth go before the sheep, 1and they follow him: And if he go before them in example of good life, then he cannot choose but teach them by experience, that which he himself doth practise in his good example. And so, he that shall think that he is not bound to teach by experience, as well as by the letter, concludeth that he is not bound to be a good man himself, who teacheth.
And this I wish, that ye be not of the minde that some haue been of (for it is no opinion fit for the Minister of God) that is to say, that they thinke, though some preach by experience, yet no man is bound to do so: as though §Git were in mens choice to doe which they list; when wee know, that the good shepheard doth go before the sheepe, 1and they follow him: And if he goe before them in example of good life, then he cannot chuse but teach them by experience, that which he himselfe doth practise in his good example. And so, hee that shall thinke that he is not bound to teach by experience, as well as by the letter, concludeth that hee is not bound to bee a good man himselfe, who teacheth.