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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.
As for Davids practise, besides the Lords commendation of him,1 that he was a man after his own mind: so that we may see more particularly, how he passed his time, that one place of his Psalms doth clearly show,2 where he saith: This is the course of my life, after the which I frame my self, as the blessed of the Lord also do: with my whole heart I seek thee, O Lord, as thy word teacheth me: the which so far as I have received, I lay it up, and hide it in my heart, as treasure: and so far as I do not understand it, I desire to be further taught of thee: I use to speak ⟨p. 204⟩of thy wondrous works, and of thy wisdom: I take more pleasure in thy testimonies,§F then in all manner of riches: and I daily meditate and muse thereon. By these, with many other such properties of a godly man mentioned in the same Psalm, we may conclude without doubting, that a mind thus exercised was not void of a life full of answerable fruits:3 And three times a day he did use to resort to God ordinarily in prayer and thanksgiving, after a solemn manner,4 besides other occasions oft moving him: that save only in that one matter of Uriah the Hittite, we seldom read of a man more taken up of an heavenly heart, then he was.
As for Dauids practise, besides the Lords commendation of him,1 that he was a man after his owne minde: so that we may see more particularly, how he passed his time, that one place of his Psalmes doth cleerely shew,2 where he saith: This is the course of my life, after the which I frame my selfe, as the blessed of the Lord also doe: with my whole heart I seeke thee, O Lord, as thy word teacheth me: the which so farre as I haue receiued, I lay it vp, and hide it in my heart, as treasure: and so farre as I doe not vnderstand it, I desire to be further taught of thee: I vse to speake