A10945:582
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.
1And this for the borrower: now as concerning such as are able to give, and to lend, first I will set down their duties in those respects, and how they should use their goods, to the end they may continue this duty of lending and giving still: after, I will show what rules of righteous dealing they must use in the getting and increasing of their goods, with all men, and in all kinds of their dealings, that so they may be free from this common evil, of wronging any, in their commodities.
1And this for the borrower: now as concerning such as are able to giue, and to lend, first I will set downe their duties in those respects, and how they should vse their goods, to the end they may continue this dutie of lending and giuing still: after, I will shew what rules of righteous dealing they must vse in the getting and increasing of their goods, with all men, and in all kindes of their dealings, that so they may be free from this common euill, of wronging any, in their commodities.
- 1The duty of the giver.The dutie of the giuer.
1They who give, must give freely, not by compulsion, and cheerfully, desiring thereby to relieve and comfort them who receive it, for charity and conscience sake; as the necessity of the poor body requireth, and their ability §Hwill give leave: and so, as they may give to one, as well as to another, and continue the same duty:2 and in greatest necessity to stretch out their hand the more largely, without the which necessity they may continue their patrimony and inheritance, to their posterity.