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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…

Name: Seven treatises containing such direction as is gathered out of the Holy Scriptures, leading…
Author: Richard Rogers

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.

Richard Rogers 1550?–1618London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1603

[24], 18 p., 19-20 leaves, 21-480 p., 484-490 leaves, 489 [i.e. 491]-599, [33] p. · 388k words · STC 21215 · ESTC S116354

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Treatise 2 › Chapter 10: Of four sorts of such as hope for salvation; yet renounce not open sins, and outward…Treatise 2 › Chapter 10: Of foure sorts of such as hope for saluation; yet renounce not open sinnes, and outward…

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To whom may be referred these, who go for zealous persons, who live inordinately, ¹without attending upon any honest trade, idle, unprofitable, busy bodies,² and counting it godliness to talk of the faults of others; yea and oftentimes speak to please such as are in the company, and this not by unawares, or suddenly, at some one time; but oft, and without any hearty repentance (for then they would amend:) which when they have done, how can they deserve any such name of reverent Christians, or to be so accounted? when they, who will be thought forwarder then other, shall not look also, that they live more without offence then other,³ but in their dealings one §Kwith another shall be worse then civill men, who have no religion: what a reproach is it to them? when there shall be contending in words, bitterness, open brawls, unseemly crowings one over another, casting one another in the teeth with their infirmities, reporting in all companies what wrongs they have sustained one by another, laughing for joy when they are fallen, whom they mislike; when there shall be froward and currish answers, taking all ⟨p. 131⟩§Athings in the worst part, and for no persuasion,⁴ remitting any thing of their uttermost due, toward such as be in their danger. What reckoning is to be made of their religion? when men will be taken for earnest professors, and yet they shall be found hollow, and double in their dealings, one speech to some, and at some time, but contrary at other times, to other persons; and so be void of plain dealing: so that for commodity, they depart from manifest duty. What are they in respect of that which they do pretend? when they dare yet feed their eyes with unchaste looks, thereby making way to the defiling of their bodies, when they will nourish the occasions thereof, although not so openly, as others do, by company, talk, amorous looks, lascivious and §B

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Richard Rogers 1550?–1618

Place

London

Printer

Felix Kyngston

Bookseller

Thomas Man

Year

1603

Size

[24], 18 p., 19-20 leaves, 21-480 p., 484-490 leaves, 489 [i.e. 491]-599, [33] p.

Words

387,941

Catalogue

STC 21215 · ESTC S116354

Text

EEBO-TCP A10945

Passages

2,090

Sections

166

Title page

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…

CHAP. II. Of certain objections raised from the former doctrine, and answers thereto: as why we should put differences betwixt men: and whether the godly may fall reproachfully, and what infirmities they may have.

CHAP. II. Of certaine obiections raised from the former doctrine, and answeres thereto: as why we should put differences betwixt men: and whether the godly may fall reprochfully, and what infirmities they may haue.

The author

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Reformers309

Puritans1,782

Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36

CHAP. II. Of certain objections raised from the former doctrine, and answers thereto: as why we should put differences betwixt men: and whether the godly may fall reproachfully, and what infirmities they may have.

CHAP. II. Of certaine obiections raised from the former doctrine, and answeres thereto: as why we should put differences betwixt men: and whether the godly may fall reprochfully, and what infirmities they may haue.

The author

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