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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.
So shall they know by experience what this meaneth, which I speak of, namely, to walk with God continually, and after a certain manner (although wandering on the earth,1 wrapped in with infirmities) to have their conversation in heaven with him. And so shall they more clearly and fully behold the benefit of Christs death; that it was not only to save them from eternal death, and to bring them to everlasting life; but also to work the death of sin our most deadly enemy, and to mortify it, and to purchase §Kfor them a comfortable passage thither also, through the enjoying of many goodly blessings in this life, as pledges of the same, though it be otherwise but a vale of misery, to all such as find not this for their portion. For this is to be known, that as every one excelleth another in the graces of the spirit, thereafter is his measure greater in the privileges of a Christian, more then others, and with more sound and continual comfort doth he pass his ⟨p. 205⟩§Adays, and free his life from reproachful and fearful evils. And the more that any godly man increaseth in goodness, and goeth beyond that estate, wherein he hath sometime been, in knowledge and in an high esteeming of it, and the right use of the same; the more shall his life be filled with matter of sound and pure rejoicing.
So shall they know by experience what this meaneth, which I speake of, namely, to walke with God continually, and after a certaine manner (although wandering on the earth,1 wrapped in with infirmities) to haue their conuersation in heauen with him. And so shall they more cleerely and fully behold the benefit of Christs death; that it was not onely to saue them from eternall death, and to bring them to euerlasting life; but also to worke the death of sinne our most deadly enemie, and to mortifie it, and to purchase §Kfor them a comfortable passage thither also, through the inioying of many goodly blessings in this life, as pledges of the same, though it be otherwise but a vale of miserie, to all such as finde not this for their portion. For this is to be knowne, that as euery one excelleth another in the graces of the spirit, thereafter is his measure greater in the priuiledges of a Christian, more then others, and with more sound and continuall comfort doth he passe his