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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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¹Now I have said what I purposed, I will go forward. In teaching, labour much in this manner, which I have mentioned, to beat into the people, (with making it plain to them, how they may be assured of their salvation,§H as I have taught in the first treatise) beat in (I say) this doctrine of believing, that God will minister all help to enable them to live godly. For in both points (if view might be taken throughout this dominion) it should be found that the people are ignorant and to seek; both how to come to the assurance of salvation, and also how they should be rightly taught to lead a godly and a Christian life. And how cometh this to pass, but because men teach not oft (of which all may see what need there is) or else they do not in commiseration of the peoples weak capacity and memory, beat upon these things among all other again and again.² So S. Paul hath left behind him his practise for our instruction, saying: It grieveth me not to write (when he cannot §Icome to preach them) the same things to you, and for you, it is a sure thing. And we should know, that it is no shame to preach the same things oft, yea in our own congregation; but meet and fit (especially if they be these special matters) unless we contend for the vain praise of men, and will show our pride by seeking after novelty,³ rather then our desire of the peoples edifying. Yet I nourish not barbarousness, nor the uttering unseasonably and unsavourly either of the same words and sentences, or in bosom Sermons, the same things: but in the evidence of the spirit, and in renewing our labour and pain, even about the same doctrine which we taught before, it shall be so far from being wearisome and tedious, that the best hearers shall affirm that they §Kcannot hear them too oft, but desire with all their hearts to hear them again.⁴

¹Now I haue said what I purposed, I will goe forward. In teaching, labour much in this manner, which I haue mentioned, to beate into the people, (with making it plaine to them, how they may be assured of their saluation,

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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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