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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.
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.
1But me thinks I hear some objecting thus: what? are all damned, and out of the estate of grace, which commit any of these sins? And may not many of these offenders notwithstanding their faults, be the children of God? And if men commit such faults, do they not (think we) repent afterwards? (I say, if they do, that objection is answered) Also they say, they cannot abide that such differences should be made of men. And have the godly, whom ye shoal out of others, no faults, but are they without infirmities? are they so pure, that they live not as other §Hmen? and do not their lives gather up the common sins of the time, as holy as they be? and do they not lie in them also for a season, as well as they who are not thought so holy? Which if it be so, why should we have such differences of men?2 why should one be shoaled from the other? I answer, as for differences of men they are put, by the Lord himself, both in name, conversation, and reward: to the Thessalonians, he saith: The Lord shall recompense tribulation to them which trouble his: but to those which are troubled, peace and rest: and the end of the Ministry is to shoal Gods elect and beloved ones from the world, and to bring them to his sheepfold.