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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.
1Oh the fruit and benefit, which by our meditation and private prayer we reap, is so great (the spirit of God changing our hearts thereby, from their daily course and custom more and more, and bringing the heavenly life into more liking with us, and making it more easy and sweet, which with the men of the world is so irksome and unsavoury) that none can well §Iexpress or conceive it, but he which hath felt the same? For by it, God bringeth to pass, that the sugared baits of earthly delights and transitory pleasures of the world (though Satan kindleth an excessive and an inordinate love of them in us) become not deadly poison unto us, as they do to many, the Lord teaching us to see the painted visor and deceivable picture of them by looking into them throughly, that we may beware of them.
1Oh the fruite and benefit, which by our meditation and priuate prayer we reape, is so great (the spirit of God changing our hearts thereby, from their daily course and custom more and more, and bringing the heauenly life into more liking with vs, and making it more easie and sweete, which with the men of the world is so yrkesome and vnsauorie) that none can well §Iexpresse or conceiue it, but he which hath felt the same? For by it, God bringeth to passe, that the sugred baites of earthly delights and transitorie pleasures of the world (though Sathan kindleth an excessiue and an inordinate loue of them in vs) become not deadly poison vnto vs, as they doe to many, the Lord teaching vs to see the painted vizor and deceiueable picture of them by looking into them throughly, that we may beware of them.
- 1Other sweet benefit of meditation.Other sweete benefit of meditation.