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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.
They hear the word of God willingly sometimes,1 and some of them speak of it with joy, and wonder at the heavenly wisdom of it; but it vanisheth away and fleeteth: whereas if it had been sound, it would have increased and continued, as the herb that taketh root in good ground, becometh fruitful. So they attain to many good gifts of God, whereby one would think sometimes that they were not far from eternal life; but they either bury them in a napkin, and do no good with them, or use them amiss, as Judas did Christs communion with him, to their own hurt, while they §Ddare be bolder by means of these good gifts to offend God, then if they had them not.
They heare the word of God willingly sometimes,1 and some of them speake of it with ioy, and wonder at the heauenly wisedome of it; but it vanisheth away and fleeteth: whereas if it had been sound, it would haue increased and continued, as the hearbe that taketh roote in good ground, becommeth fruitfull. So they attaine to many good gifts of God, whereby one would thinke sometimes that they were not farre from eternall life; but they either burie them in a napkin, and doe no good with them, or vse them amisse, as Iudas did Christs communion with him, to their owne hurt, while they §Ddare bee bolder by meanes of these good gifts to offend God, then if they had them not.
- 1Sudden flashes of grace.
But if I should reckon up the beadrolls of gross faults which they suffer in themselves, and nourish (yet under the name of infirmities) it should easily appear, to such as have any judgement in the Scriptures, that they cannot be reckoned among the believers, and beloved of the Lord. For howsoever he gather his elect out of all these kinds, yet are none of them to be accounted for his, while they abide and continue so. From these faults therefore let the believers separate themselves.