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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.
yet we §Hmay rest therein, even such as it is, with sound peace, void of fear.
yet we §Hmay rest therein, euen such as it is, with sound peace, voide of feare.
And thus far, God in great mercy, hath made us partakers of the knowledge of his will, that we having our desires in this wise subject to him, as I have said, we may possess our souls after in peace and heavenly manner. Therefore if any man,1 whose heart is purified by faith, doth exercise himself in knowing these his soul and shameful lusts, and mark how he is led away of them, and deceived by them, and which of them do most trouble him, and oftest prevail against him, and therefore by the helps which God hath given him (which shall be set down in the next treatise) doth resist them; let not him doubt, but that he is occupied in the godly life, and that he is come §Iout of the stinking Sodom, of his old sinful course: and thus doth the godly man carry himself, and at this mark doth he chiefly aim. For the true wisdom which is from above, of the which every godly man hath his name, that is, he is called wise, this wisdom showeth it self in all manner of holy conversation in meekness, and suffereth not the contrary lusts to dwell and abide in the heart, as bitter envying, provokings one of another, swellings, tumults, and stormings one against another, with such like, as every one hath his measure. In deed all men have not overcome themselves alike;2 no not even they, who have set themselves to this work of plucking down the ruins of their old building: for they who have great and clear knowledge of the will of God,§K and of the whole mystery of godliness, joined with affection, they are the most forward: