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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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But we have not this grace (ye will say) and therefore what is it to us?1 we have had it (I say again, so many as I speak of) and have been taught, and have a promise to overcome by faith: and therefore we may do so still: and that better and better every day, the more experience we have. And although, ⟨p. 144⟩I grant that these things are hard to such as are not throughly seasoned §Fwith the knowledge of this doctrine, nor instructed oft, and made familiarly acquainted with the will and loving kindness of God (whose case is much to be pitied, and their growings cannot be great) yet it is most certain, that where these things are often taught, and understood, it shall go far better with them then with others. And they shall with ease get victory over their special corruptions, as sloth, distrust, and such like: where as they, who are not acquainted and seasoned with them, shall not have experience of Gods power in helping them to overcome the same; but be servants unto them, which they might otherwise have mastered. Examples hereof, as we have many; so that of David doth declare it, when he was constrained to cry out of §Git,2 saying: Against thee (O Lord) I offended, and did this great evil: as if he should have said; my sin had never broke out openly in the sight of men, if I had not let loose my heart first, in the sight of God.
But we haue not this grace (ye will say) and therefore what is it to vs?1 we haue had it (I say againe, so many as I speake of) and haue been taught, and haue a promise to ouercome by faith: and therefore we may doe so still: and that better and better euery day, the more experience wee haue. And although, ⟨p. 144⟩I graunt that these things are hard to such as are not throughly seasoned §F