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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.
Is it hard now to see, is it hard now to judge, how this heavenly banquet §Kdoth for the present time, and in the receiving thereof, or may at leastwise, enlarge the heart of the faithful servant of God, and make him fit for duty, and fill his heart with comfort, while he communicateth in the supper with the rest of the faithful, so welcome to the Lord, who invited him to it? For there, he may and ought to meditate on the daintiness of the banquet; on the love of him that ordained it; on the communion he hath with Christ and his ⟨p. 221⟩§Agraces, and on the outward signs, what they assure him of; and on the word preached, which showeth him all this: All these things, with such like, he may think on and apply to himself. For although the flesh striveth against the spirit, as well herein, as in other works of it; yet the faithful communicant in his measure, findeth his heart ready to yield up to the Lord in this heavenly banquet, no less, then I have said, even the sacrifice of praise and thanks, though all do it not in a like measure.
Is it hard now to see, is it hard now to iudge, how this heauenly banquet §Kdoth for the present time, and in the receiuing therof, or may at leastwise, inlarge the heart of the faithfull seruant of God, and make him fit for dutie, and fill his heart with comfort, while he communicateth in the supper with the rest of the faithful, so welcome to the Lord, who inuited him to it? For there, he may and ought to meditate on the daintines of the banquet; on the loue of him that ordained it; on the communion he hath with Christ and his ⟨p. 221⟩§Agraces, and on the outward signes, what they assure him of; and on the word preached, which sheweth him all this: All these things, with such like, he may thinke on and apply to himselfe. For although the flesh striueth against the spirit, as well herein, as in other workes of it; yet the faithfull communicant in his measure, findeth his heart readie to yeeld vp to the Lord in this heauenly banquet, no lesse, then I haue said, euen the sacrifice of praise and thankes, though all doe it not in a like measure.