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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.
CHAP. 5. Of the renouncing of all sin: which is the first effect of a renewed §Hheart in the true believer.
CHAP. 5. Of the renouncing of all sinne: which is the first effect of a renued §Hheart in the true beleeuer.
1Now the heart being renewed and changed, must be kept so: but of that afterwards, in more fit place. In the mean season, I will pass to the effect of this cleansing and change of the heart, and show what work it bringeth forth in him that is thus renewed and changed. For I having spoken of the cleansing of it, as I purposed, namely, that it must, with the whole man, be changed and renewed, before the life can be amended; it followeth,2 that I should now further proceed to this; that is, to the description §Iof the christian life, whereby I mean true repentance; or the life of the believer, as I propounded: which is the building that must be set on that foundation: and that conversation, which cometh from the forenamed change; and is a renouncing of all sin, and a care to walk in a new life, (to glorify God thereby, even unto death) as was said before. Concerning which, more particularly (as I promised) this first is to be marked, that (the godly life standing in these two parts: that is, the renouncing of sin, and practising of godly duties) all ungodliness,3 and not some part or kind only, is renounced of the true believer, and of him who will soundly profess to live godly: and they are brought to this power and grace, who trust in the living