A10945:709
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.
The next mean or help public, are the Sacraments, which (of the two) are more darkly seen and found to be helps to godliness, then the word, among the most part of those who are partakers of them: both because men have seldomer use of them, then of other doctrine; and also, for that they be not so fully instructed in the same. And of the two Sacraments, which God hath left to his Church, in this latter age to be enjoyed, Baptism is less seen and perceived to be an help, then the Lords supper: In speaking whereof, I purpose only to stand upon this which I have taken in hand, namely, to show the Christian reader, how the Sacraments are §Cmeans and helps to set him forward in a godly life (as too few do make them) and to leave him for other knowledge about the Sacraments (which is exceeding large) to those who have written of them at large, as M.P. Martyr, M. Calvin, M. Beza, and to ordinary teaching.
THe next meane or helpe publike, are the Sacraments, which (of the two) are more darkely seene and found to be helps to godlines, then the word, among the most part of those who are partakers of them: both because men haue seldomer vse of them, then of other doctrine; and also, for that they be not so fully instructed in the same. And of the two Sacraments, which God hath left to his Church, in this latter age to be inioyed, Baptisme is lesse seene and perceiued to be an helpe, then the Lords supper: In speaking whereof, I purpose only to stand vpon this which I haue taken in hand, namely, to shew the Christian reader, how the Sacraments are §Cmeanes and helpes to set him forward in a godly life (as too few doe make them) and to leaue him for other knowledge about the Sacraments (which is exceeding large) to those who haue written of them at large, as M.P. Martyr, M. Caluin, M. Beza, and to ordinarie teaching.
And this also I will do with as much brevity as I can: Therefore first seeing the Sacraments are helps necessarily adjoined unto the preaching of the word, and do visibly confirm and ratify that, which the word doth teach: and the covenant betwixt God and the believer made,