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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 if they be told that God will cast such into hell for their evil lives, they hope, they say, in most things, they serve God as well as others; and God have mercy on us, they say, if we should be damned for every such thing: and we repent when we have done: we cannot be saints here: we will set §Eour good will to Gods, and that which we cannot do, we hope Christ hath done for us: and if the hardest should fall out, yet if we may have but one hour to repent us before we die, we trust to do well enough.
And if they be tolde that God will cast such into hell for their euill liues, they hope, they say, in most things, they serue God as well as others; and God haue mercy on vs, they say, if we should be damned for euery such thing: and we repent when we haue done: we cannot be saints here: we will set §Eour good will to Gods, and that which we cannot doe, we hope Christ hath done for vs: and if the hardest should fall out, yet if we may haue but one houre to repent vs before we die, we trust to doe well enough.
These with many more such speeches, which lay open their heart, and estate which they are in, towards God; to every man that can judge, are suitable fully to the course of their lives: and therefore he that judgeth by the Scriptures, will think them far from everlasting life. And yet as gross and ⟨p. 128⟩brutish as they are, there want not such who should tell them the truth more §Fplainly, who yet hold them up with good hope of their salvation, in so dangerous estate as they are in: which they themselves so flatter themselves in, that they had need to be driven from their deceitful hold by all means possible, and not upholden therein: not unlike to them in the Prophet Jeremiah, where he saith,1