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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.
CHAP. 4. Of public prayers: also of the private helps in general.
CHAP. 4. Of publike prayers: also of the priuate helpes in generall.
The public prayers solemnly offered to God in the congregation, and praising of him with Psalms, is another of these public helps. In the which, if that mind be in us, with the which we have been taught to come to all holy exercises, and so be prepared for them; who doubteth but that we may receive much help by them? yea and the §Gbetter a man is, the more he shall profit by them. For when the faithful, from God himself, have a promise that they shall be heard in all things that are good for them, even the most excellentest, and do then empty their hearts by confessing their sins, and with the rest of the godly, lift up their spirits and voices together in praising him; is there any doubt, but that they are afterward in private more cheerfully bent to serve him? And in that the ignorant (which in the best places is the greatest number) take no more profit by them, it is not long of the exercises, but that they are unfit to receive benefit by them: and a prejudicate opinion in some that they can take no good by them, and therefore partly in ignorance, partly in rash zeal, they give themselves to §Hsleight and negligent hearing of them. The direct remedy to redress both faults, as far as in man lieth, were an ordinary able ministry: whereby both the ignorant might (besides other good things) learn rightly how to use them: and the prejudicate ones (which conceive the worse of them, for that they see small fruit to follow of them) should be silent and have nothing to say against them, except with the Brownists, they will despise all public assemblies. But whatsoever the ignorant get, the children of God may find especial good refreshing by them: which is that thing that I have to prove and persuade. For when besides our own private supplications and thanksgivings, we have by the Lord himself, appointed for us these also in public: