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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
Treatise 1 › Chapter 2: Of mans misery.Treatise 1 › Chapter 2: Of mans miserie.
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.
TO begin therefore with their misery,1 and briefly to speak of it, and the next branch (seeing they are of others largely handled) no man must think that it is the estate wherein God at the first created them,2 either Adam the father of all the world, or his posterity which was then in his loins.
TO begin therefore with their miserie,1 and briefly to speake of it, and the next branch (seeing they are of others largely handled) no man must think that it is the estate wherein God at the first created them,2 either Adam the father of all the world, or his posterity which was then in his loines.
- 1The first head.
- 2The first point of mans misery.The first point of mans miserie.
Sure it is (I say) that it was not thus with mankind in the beginning: for God then made all things good, and man amongst other creatures he made holy, and happy,1 the lord of all the creatures which were upon the earth, little inferior to the Angels, endued with infinite blessings, full of beauty and glory. So that when it might be seen that nothing was wanting but this, that he was not altogether free from losing this blessed estate, yet even there the devil took an occasion against him,2