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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.
And this they will do, who are otherwise not void of religion: by all which it may be seen how mens minds are occupied, and with what good stuff their heads are filled.
And this they will doe, who are otherwise not voide of religion: by all which it may be seene how mens minds are occupied, and with what good stuffe their heads are filled.
But to draw to an end in the laying forth of these worldly lusts, tending to the hurt of our neighbour in his goods; and to go to another kind:1 §9whereas men should seek to preserve the good name and credit of others, as their own, they are carried to nothing more preposterously, thorough their unruly lusts. For how rare are those men, which take well, and interpret in the better part things done, or words spoken doubtfully, but rather suspect as soon as they hear them, that all was done of malice, and therefore conceive §Bhardly against them by and by: so strong are their rebellious lusts, that they cannot be held in: what deep conceits therefore do arise,2 and rash surmises of them, (as they did in Saul against David and Jonathan his son) and all thorough mistaking of that which was rightly done, and honestly meant and spoken? how do their hearts burn hereupon (think we) to speak and do, not ambiguously and doubtfully against them, but resolutely whatsoever cometh into their head, as Shimei did against David? 3So that they thirst to defame them by word or writing: yea, and if many years before there were any offence committed by them, of which they are privy, although they concealed it till then, and made light of it: yet now,4