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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.
It was a great part of Solomon his royalty, that he gave silver, as stones; 1and ⟨p. 192⟩goodly Cedars, as the wild fig trees: the Lord giveth graces and possessions,§F that neither silver nor gold can purchase: and an habitation that neither Cedars nor any Almond trees can make resemblance of. It is a great honour to God, that he hath made and fashioned man so excellent a creature of slime:2 but it is a greater honour, that he hath of a rude, unbridled and unclean devil, made a well ordered, sober, and meek Christian: yea a sanctified person;3 as the Scripture calleth him: for by his holy spirit through the work of the Gospel, he hath made of an extortioner, and oppressor, a liberal and bountiful giver,4 as Zaccheus: of an adulteress, a penitent woman, reclaimed from the course of unclean life,5 as the woman in Luk. 7.47. and of a persecutor, a preacher: yea himself a persecuted man, even Paul the §GApostle. And how doth such a change (think we) when it is seen of men, and the report of it heard among such as knew them before, cause them to say:6 The Lord hath done great things? And such grace doth God give, to them (I mean) that fear him,7 that he causeth by their light which shineth among men, 8even their very enemy; to be at one with them: yea to speak well of them, and to glorify their father which is in heaven. And yet their beauty is (to speak as the truth is) chiefly within, and not seen with eye.