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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
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1As concerning infirmities, it is defended by no Christian, that the most §Igodly which live here, are void of them, but rather confess that they be burdened sore with the weight of them: and so may they be, although these foul evils be not common with them, nor long lien in of them, which I have spoken of; of whose infirmities I will say more, when I have satisfied in some sort these objections.
1As concerning infirmities, it is defended by no Christian, that the most §Igodly which liue here, are voide of them, but rather confesse that they be burthened sore with the weight of them: and so may they be, although these foule euils be not common with them, nor long lien in of them, which I haue spoken of; of whose infirmities I will say more, when I haue satisfied in some sort these obiections.
- 1Infirmities in all. Matth. 7.22.25.34.
1Therefore where it is demanded, if they be not partakers of the same sins, that other men are; I deny not, but that it is possible for them in some sort, and for a time, to be carried after the stream of the evil example of so many, which are in the world so common, and almost universal: for the best live, where Satan's throne is, (even as the Israelites and the Egyptians dwelt §Ktogether:) whose unsavoury and stinking breath, what marvel were it, if the whole and sound should be infected with it? And further, as they may possibly have their part in the sins of the ungodly; so I deny not, (if God bear not the greater authority with them, and be not the more regarded of them) but that they may also lie still in the same loathsomeness for a season, though smallie to their comfort. This to be true, both lamentable examples