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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.
And now I having finished that which I purposed about the sins to be renounced, and the duties to be practised in a godly life; here understand §Hthat this renouncing of evil and turning from it, and the contrary practising of duty,1 is nothing else but repentance, and the selfsame thing. And the bringing forth of the fruits of amendment or of repentance, is all one with that living by faith, which the Scripture calleth the life of the righteous, or a Christian conversation. The which I make mention of, that none may think, that the godly life, the living by faith, and the repentant life, are divers things the one from the other: which might raise much trouble in many to think: so that when they have laboured much and travailed painfully in one of them, they should be new to begin in the other. But seeing the holy Ghost in the Scriptures doth lay forth the life of the §Ibeliever in sundry manners of speech (every one setting out the nature and property thereof for the more full and clear understanding of it) it is meet we should not be ignorant of it.
And now I hauing finished that which I purposed about the sinnes to bee renounced, and the duties to bee practised in a godly life; here vnderstand §Hthat this renouncing of euill and turning from it, and the contrary practising of dutie,1 is nothing els but repentance, and the selfesame thing. And the bringing foorth of the fruites of amendement or of repentance, is all one with that liuing by faith, which the Scripture calleth the life of the righteous, or a Christian conuersation. The which I make mention of, that none may thinke, that the godly life, the liuing by faith, and the repentant life, are diuers things the one from the other: which might raise much trouble in many to thinke: so that when they haue laboured much and trauailed painfully in one of them, they should bee new to begin in the other. But seeing the holie Ghost in the Scriptures doth lay foorth the life of the §Ibeleeuer in sundrie manners of speech (euery one setting out the nature and propertie thereof for the more full and cleere vnderstanding of it) it is meete we should not be ignorant of it.