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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.
Finally, this will not suffer you to fret and to be unquiet in thinking upon the day of death, and to put the remembrance of it far from you by wishing ⟨p. 98⟩long life: but it will make you sigh and groan to be out of your life, and with §FPaul to account it a prison to live in the body still: 1and as the Preacher saith, to reckon the day of death when you must live here no longer,2 better then the day of birth, which is the beginning of life. O ye men of this world! if ye can tell us of greater commodities, and tidings of better things then these, and assure us how we may come by them, we will forsake and leave all, and rejoice with you:3 If ye cannot, but rather your best things are those which I have spoken of already; namely, great riches, pleasures, your enemies death, and desire of long life to your selves, the vanity, uncertainty, and danger of the which I have set down already;4 then renounce you all that ye cannot safely keep; and rejoice with us: do but taste and see how good the Lord is: and when you §Gsee what is best, embrace it: or else I will pronounce the saying of the Prophet against you: which in time shall most surely find you out, and take hold of you,5 although you hide your selves from it. Behold, and wonder, and vanish away: for I will work a work in your days, that if a man tell you the truth, ye shall not believe it.
Finally, this will not suffer you to fret and to be vnquiet in thinking vpon the day of death, and to put the remembrance of it farre from you by wishing ⟨p. 98⟩long life: but it will make you sigh and groane to be out of your life, and with