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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.
For such may understand, to the first point of their objection, where they ⟨p. 210⟩say, they cannot leave the course, in the which they have lived (that is in small §Fknowledge of God and his will; following the world with greater pleasure then the word of God: and having their other rejoicings in things here below, & using their labour but even as toil &c.) they may (I say) understand, that if they cannot change such courses, their own mouths shall be their accusers: for such cannot be in good state. For I urge no other change upon them, then they themselves shall be forced to confess to be required by God of them, and that for their best.
For such may vnderstand, to the first point of their obiection, where they ⟨p. 210⟩say, they cannot leaue the course, in the which they haue liued (that is in small §Fknowledge of God and his will; following the world with greater pleasure then the word of God: and hauing their other reioycings in things here below, & vsing their labour but euen as toyle &c.) they may (I say) vnderstand, that if they cannot change such courses, their owne mouthes shall be their accusers: for such cannot be in good state. For I vrge no other change vpon them, then they themselues shall be forced to confesse to be required by God of them, and that for their best.
1And being so, I would ask this of them, who is he, which having lived long in a cottage full of penury and wants, cannot frame himself to a more wealthy estate, if it befall him, and to enjoy greater abundance of all good §Gthings meet for this life, and that because he hath of long time been accustomed to a meaner and poorer condition? Is any so destitute of common reason, or so wilful, that when his diet may be wholesome and sweet, his apparel cleanly and seemly, his habitation commodious, and well fenced against all annoyance of wind and weather, he will yet refuse all these being offered him, for a portion in poverty, where his wants cannot be supplied?