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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 yet another thing I must needs add (as I am persuaded) very admirable:1 that he did use to acquaint himself in the middest of his prosperity with the looking for a change, and did learn in his greatest abundance to want: §Cand being in so high a place, yet he was not puffed up;2 because he considered how fleeting and momentany all things were: and that his prosperity was lent him only for a short time, and was not a patrimony or inheritance to him for ever: So that when he was afterward tried with loss of all (which was exceeding much) it might appear, that he was but little moved with it, because he had loved it but a little, when he did enjoy it: The which gracious man thus using the world, as hath been said, holding all so stranger like, while he had it, and so willingly foregoing it, when God would require it, how could he do it, without a diligent looking to his ways, and the directing of the thoughts of his heart in a very particular manner, and that in and §Dabout worldly goods, in which case men think no bounds should be prescribed them.3
And yet another thing I must needes adde (as I am perswaded) very admirable:1 that he did vse to acquaint himselfe in the middest of his prosperitie with the looking for a change, and did learne in his greatest abundance to want: §Cand being in so high a place, yet he was not puffed vp;2 because he considered how fleeting and momentany all things were: and that his prosperitie was lent him onely for a short time, and was not a patrimonie or inheritance to him for euer: So that when he was afterward tried with losse of all (which was exceeding much) it might appeere, that he was but little moued with it, because he had loued it but a little, when he did inioy it: The which gratious man thus vsing the world, as hath been said, holding all so strangerlike, while he had it, and so willingly foregoing it, when God would require it, how could he doe it, without a diligent looking to his wayes, and the directing of the thoughts of his heart in a very particular manner, and that in and