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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.
1First therefore let every man see, that his vocation and trade, by which he getteth his living, be approved of God, and profitable to men, as the Apostle willeth: and therefore, that they be no idle persons, Parasites, Jesters, Jugglers, sturdy Rogues, Players, or other gamesters, dicers, carders, and such like.2 Then, that they deal lawfully in every part of it, that righteousness may be preserved by them: In buying and selling, that the one give his penny for his pennyworth;3 fully satisfying also the travail of the other, and cost that he hath been at: and that the seller perform his pennyworth as good as is agreed for,4 and faithfully: and therefore deceitful ware, unjust weights, unequal §Imeasures, delay in time, wherein it should be performed, and such like, ought to be far off from the practise of a sound Christian: for herein promise is to be kept, 5though to the mans hinderance that made it.
1First therefore let euery man see, that his vocation and trade, by which he getteth his liuing, be approued of God, and profitable to men, as the Apostle willeth: and therefore, that they be no idle persons, Parasites, Iesters, Iugglers, sturdie Rogues, Players, or other gamesters, dicers, carders, and such like.2 Then, that they deale lawfully in euery part of it, that righteousnes may be preserued by them: In buying and selling, that the one giue his peny for his penyworth;3 fully satisfying also the trauaile of the other, and cost that he hath been at: and that the seller performe his peniworth as good as is agreed for,4