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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 if any shall think this little, and of small account, which I have spoken, and among the rest, a man to live unrebukeable in the middest of a froward and filthy generation (for I reserve to a further place, as I have said, to set down the manifold prerogatives that accompany such a life) let such compare it with the lives of those,1 which count it overmuch strictness to look carefully to their ways, and they shall find it by infinite degrees worthy to be wished and preferred: for what is there in the lives of such men, as have but §Kthis world in possession, to draw one to be in love with it, who looketh for a better? I will not stick to go further: that not only common professors of the Gospel (who yet lie dead in their sin) may be constrained to commend and reverence them that have attained to it, as knowing how infinitely they be blessed above themselves: but even such also, as have received some likelihood of grace from God, yet slenderly going about to nourish the same, ⟨p. 195⟩§Ashall see many outstrayings, and offences in their lives, which the other shall be discharged of.
And if any shall thinke this little, and of small account, which I haue spoken, and among the rest, a man to liue vnrebukeable in the middest of a froward and filthie generation (for I reserue to a further place, as I haue said, to set down the manifold prerogatiues that accompanie such a life) let such compare it with the liues of those,1 which count it ouermuch strictnes to looke carefully to their waies, and they shall finde it by infinite degrees worthie to be wished and preferred: for what is there in the liues of such men, as haue but §Kthis world in possession, to draw one to be in loue with it, who looketh for a better? I will not sticke to goe further: that not onely common professors of the Gospell (who yet lie dead in their sinne) may bee constrained to commend and reuerence them that haue attained to it, as knowing how infinitly they be blessed aboue themselues: but euen such also, as haue receiued some likelihood of grace from God, yet slenderly going about to nourish the same,