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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.
But to let them go, see thou, whosoever thou art, who desirest to walk §Ewith God in peace, that thou circumspectly look unto thy steps, and the several affections of thy heart, what and how thou carriest thy self, as I have showed, how thou oughtest to endeavour thy self to watch in all things. And this is the rather to be marked and learned, because it lendeth help to all the other rules which hereafter follow, for directing thee in all the actions of the day, as I have said: Because (as it followeth) neither in company with others,1 nor alone by thy self canst thou please God, nor in prosperity nor adversity, ⟨p. 230⟩except thou beest wary and watchful to be led by Gods word therein.§F So necessary to a Christian is this virtue, that the Apostle S. Paul to the Ephesians giveth this warning:2 When ye have put on the whole armour, and withstood the enemy, by it; yet after take heed that ye stand fast: least by the subtle and continual attendance of the enemy, your fall be the greater. Which may easily be, if we consider amongst how many occasions and provocations we walk, and how shiftless we are to avoid them: yea rather how ready of our selves to like well of them, and give place unto them.
But to let them goe, see thou, whosoeuer thou art, who desirest to walke §Ewith God in peace, that thou circumspectly looke vnto thy steps, and the seuerall affections of thy heart, what and how thou carriest thy selfe, as I haue shewed, how thou oughtest to endeuour thy selfe to watch in all things. And this is the rather to be marked and learned, because it lendeth helpe to all the other rules which hereafter follow, for directing thee in al the actions of the day, as I haue said: Because (as it followeth) neither in company with others,1 nor alone by thy selfe canst thou please God, nor in prosperitie nor aduersitie, ⟨p. 230⟩