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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.
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1The other part thereof is, that for this sin he is subject to all those fearful §Kand horrible plagues which God hath threatened, and executeth in the world upon the committers thereof, and to that endless punishment of condemnation in the world to come, which is the principal and most just desert of every sin. The particular vexations and calamities which belong to sinners in this life are innumerable, and not to be expressed: but some for the rest it shall be fit to mention, and the rather for that many thousands never ⟨p. 5⟩§Adream of, and much less are troubled with any such matter. And first, as the curse of God is upon all creatures for mans cause; so it is less to be doubted, that it is cast upon man himself. So that whatsoever he doth, or wheresoever he becometh, the wrath and anger of God followeth and accompanieth him: Cursed he is in the field, and cursed in the house, cursed in his basket, 2and in his store: and as Moses speaketh of all the creatures, wherein he should take his repast and delight, saying: Cursed is the earth for thy sake, 3thorns and briers it shall bring forth unto thee. From hence come all the dearths, famines, penury, and poverty, which every where are cried out of. In his body, sickness, diseases of many kinds, aches, gripings, swellings, burstings, and other §Bpains intolerable. In the senses, deafness, blindness, numbness, and such like, which should make any heart to quake and tremble to hear them but named. As for friends and kindred, wife and children, father and mother, or whatsoever may be thought of, which men are wont to take greatest pleasure in: how can they delight mans heart soundly, or be pleasant unto him, when they are mixed with this sauce? The Lord accurseth them, he will bring him to judgement for them, even for enjoying them whereto they have no right nor lawful liberty, as being not entitled to them by Christ, who is heir and Lord of all.4 If there were but a sword hanging with the point downward over a mans head, which were sitting at a royal banquet,