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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. 6. Of the divers kinds of evil to be renounced, and namely of inward against God and men.
CHAP. 6. Of the diuers kinds of euill to be renounced, and namely of inward against God and men.
But to proceed: as we have seen, in what manner sin is to be renounced; so let us now consider the divers kinds of evil, which are to be renounced, before we lay forth the good fruits and duties which proceed from the same. And these kinds of evil are of two sorts,1 either inward or outward.
BVt to proceed: as we haue seene, in what manner sinne is to be renounced; so let vs now consider the diuers kindes of euill, which are to be renounced, before we lay foorth the good fruits and duties which proceed from the same. And these kindes of euill are of two sorts,1 either inward or outward.
- 1Divers kinds of evil to be renounced.Diuers kinds of euill to be renounced.
And to speak distinctly of them (that I may proceed) we are taught, that in the godly life,1 in whomsoever it be found, the lusts and concupiscences which reign throughout the world, and make them whom they rule, to be as brute beasts: these corrupt lusts (I say) with all other such defilements of our actions, are in the godly life renounced, according to the light which we have to discern them; yea the faithful desire to abstain from them, as men who have received another manner of spirit then the men of the world, and therefore can take up their delight in better things: and who know the hurt which these unruly evils bring with them, whatsoever show of pleasure they offer.