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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.
These may serve for a taste of the corruptions and worldly lusts, which men not worse accounted of, do swarm with, directly tending to the dishonour §Iof God: from which with the rest that follow, when we shall see how God delivereth his beloved, we shall have cause to love the godly life more heartily, which is by Gods grace freed from such intemperance: freed, I say, so that it ruleth them not, neither reigneth in them, although sometimes in some thing it prevail against them, till they repent of it: which grace none of the other do find, nor obtain, when they be at the best.
These may serue for a taste of the corruptions and worldly lusts, which men not worse accounted of, doe swarme with, directly tending to the dishonour §Iof God: from which with the rest that follow, when wee shall see how God deliuereth his beloued, we shall haue cause to loue the godly life more heartily, which is by Gods grace freed from such intemperancie: freed, I say, so that it ruleth them not, neither reigneth in them, although sometimes in some thing it preuaile against them, till they repent of it: which grace none of the other doe finde, nor obtaine, when they be at the best.
1But to go forward: to acquaint men with some of the unbridled and worldly lusts, which carry them after the hurt of their neighbour: what unreverence, contempt, and obstinacy appeareth to be in the hearts of many against their betters, diminishing that authority, credit, and estimation, which §KGod hath given them, so that place, years, and gifts are had in mean account of them? Where is that ancient reverence which younger men in the Ministry have given to those who have gone before them in labours, gifts, and good example? they imagining themselves able to do far better then their elders, and therefore ambitiously aspiring to that which they ought not: and lifting up themselves above them, when yet they should have learned to