A10945:793
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.
Now to return, if any through necessary lets shall be constrained to let §Ipass this duty of meditation, hereby let it appear to have been necessary, and without his fault, if he supply this duty after his necessary labour ended, and take heed that in no wise it be omitted altogether, unless he can be assured with peace, that God in the omitting of it hath been remembered some other way. And so I say of the hindrance, which cometh by want of convenient place, that must be done which may most conveniently, seeing there is nothing gained by neglecting that duty, in the doing whereof standeth our peace and welfare. And thus much of the lets which hinder altogether from meditating about our estate, that we may be the fitter thereby unto prayer and good life.
Now to returne, if any through necessarie lets shall be constrained to let §Ipasse this dutie of meditation, hereby let it appeare to haue been necessarie, and without his fault, if hee supplie this dutie after his necessarie labour ended, and take heede that in no wise it be omitted altogether, vnlesse hee can be assured with peace, that God in the omitting of it hath been remembred some other way. And so I say of the hindrance, which commeth by want of conuenient place, that must be done which may most conueniently, seeing there is nothing gained by neglecting that dutie, in the doing whereof standeth our peace and welfare. And thus much of the lets which hinder altogether from meditating about our estate, that wee may be the fitter thereby vnto prayer and good life.
The other lets are such as hinder us from the good and profitable use of it,1 when we break through the three former, and these may rightly be called abuses of it: and are two, which in few words I set down thus. The first is a commonness or customariness in it, when we through persuasion that it must be continued, do it hoverly and slightly, and so make a ceremony of it, not so much looking how our hearts are well affected in and by it, as that we