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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.
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?2 And yet what comparison is there betwixt these things, and the high degree of felicity, which in the Christian course I propound, in respect of the deceivable, vain, and painful pleasure (for so I may most justly call it) which they enjoy, who follow their old custom, and lust of their ignorance?
1And being so, I would aske this of them, who is he, which hauing liued long in a cottage full of penurie and wants, cannot frame himselfe to a more wealthie estate, if it befall him, and to enioy greater abundance of all good §Gthings meete 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 wilfull, that when his diet may be wholesome and sweete, his apparrell cleanely and seemely, his habitation commodious, and well fenced against all annoyance of winde and weather, he will yet refuse all these being offered him, for a portion in pouertie, where his wants cannot be supplied?2 And yet what comparison is there betwixt these things, and the high degree of felicitie, which in the Christian course I propound, in respect of the deceiueable, vaine, and painefull pleasure (for so I may most iustly call it) which they inioy, who follow their old custome, and lust of their ignorance?
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