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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
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And this are all such as desire to take any good by it, to know: that they ⟨p. 236⟩must be acquainted throughly with this sweet and heavenly communing §Fwith the Lord and themselves, which was called of the Fathers of ancient time, their Soliloquy, that is, the talk which they used to have alone by themselves: That as men wearied, desire rest; so we by the variety and multiplicity of business in this world, being troubled and distracted, may seek ease to our minds by meditation.
And this are all such as desire to take any good by it, to know: that they ⟨p. 236⟩must be acquainted throughly with this sweete and heauenly communing §Fwith the Lord and themselues, which was called of the Fathers of ancient time, their Soliloquie, that is, the talke which they vsed to haue alone by themselues: That as men wearied, desire rest; so wee by the varietie and multiplicitie of busines in this world, being troubled and distracted, may seeke ease to our mindes by meditation.
For otherwise we may muse and think upon any good things, and ponder our words and actions which we do, to see them done aright: which yet is not this kind of meditation that I now speak of, but that watchfulness mentioned before; which is a wary regarding, and taking heed to our ways, in one thing after another. Which yet the Prophet calleth meditation §Galso:1 as where he saith, All the day long do I meditate on thy word: and in Joshua; Thou shalt meditate day and night on the book of the law: which we know, could not be understood of meditation by intermission of company, or other actions, and business, but in their whole course a circumspect care and regard that they might be done after the word. And the matter of this our meditation,