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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
Treatise 2 › Chapter 12: Of the keeping of the heart once purged, in it good plight afterward.
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And the man of God,1 who was best acquainted with the heart among many thousands, both how evil it is, and how it is in the best manner to be looked unto and preserved, he hath taught the same: that the servant of God, who hath by his mercy his former life purged by the forgiveness of his sins, must keep it from new infections hereafter, by taking heed, and looking to the same, according to Gods word.
And the man of God,1 who was best acquainted with the heart among many thousands, both how euill it is, and how it is in the best manner to be looked vnto and preserued, he hath taught the same: that the seruant of God, who hath by his mercie his former life purged by the forgiuenes of his sinnes, must keepe it from new infections hereafter, by taking heede, and looking to the same, according to Gods word.
This is plain to them that have experience in the Christian life, that men walking among so many snares of the devil, baits of the world, and meeting with so infinite rebellions, and lusts of their own hearts, as cannot be expressed, but as we find them out by observing them, are not without §Bcontinual danger and hurt, if they be not acquainted with this holy watch and ward, that their knowledge may be as a light to them in this dark world, and their provident care as a preservative from the infection of sin, which in all their dealings will meet with them: yea and (that I say nothing of them, who are without Christ in it) even the believers themselves (I mean) do find much annoyance, and discomfort in their lives,1