A10945:787
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.
1The next impediment of the first sort that hindereth a Christian from meditating, is an unfit mind unto spiritual and heavenly duties, as when it being carried after other desires, is slow and unwilling to be occupied in cogitation or consideration of any holy matters: and therefore letteth pass this meditation, as finding himself utterly unable to enter into the same.§K He that knoweth, it should be performed (it may be) is sometime grieved for the omitting of it: but if the mind be impotent, as having lost her former strength for the time, it is constrained to yield to the omitting of it. Now for the redress of this, I answer, if he who omitteth it thus, through the untowardness of his heart, and unfitness to good duties, be such an one as hath learned and resolved to serve God every day, he can the more hardly ⟨p. 241⟩§Abear this disordrednes of the mind, and therefore he will seek more speedily to have it remedied: But if he hath not yet obtained any such government of himself, but doth duty to God more generally, seldom, and uncertainly, it must needs be the more hardly redressed: for it is manifest, that such an one hath given his mind more liberty to wander in the world from the Christian course.
1The next impediment of the first sort that hindereth a Christian from meditating, is an vnfit minde vnto spiritual and heauenly duties, as when it being carried after other desires, is slow and vnwilling to be occupied in cogitation or consideration of any holy matters: and therefore letteth passe this meditation, as finding himselfe vtterly vnable to enter into the same.§K He that knoweth, it should be performed (it may be) is sometime grieued for the omitting of it: but if the minde be impotent, as hauing lost her former strength for the time, it is constrained to yeeld to the omitting of it. Now for the redresse of this, I answere, if he who omitteth it thus, through the vntowardnes of his heart, and vnfitnes to good duties, be such an one as hath learned and resolued to serue God euery day, he can the more hardly ⟨p. 241⟩