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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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The second is when, although we be desirous to use it,1 and that for our help and edifying, yet our heads are so full of trifling and wandering phantasies, or worldly matters, that we cannot mind those heavenly things, which are so contrary to them: And from hence ariseth a weariness of it, & an hastening to more liberty, that our hearts may range where they list, which is that §Bwhich they most of all desire. And although through the very corruption of nature, the best of Gods children do complain, that they do not the good they would, and therefore not this good sometimes (notwithstanding they mislike that it should be so, and resist it:) yet the especial cause of this unsavoury, wearisome, and untoward taking in hand, or setting upon so holy and heavenly a part of Gods worship, is another besides this: that is to say, the letting loose of our hearts all the day (as I have had occasion to say in another place) disordredly, without watching over them, and calling them back from such endless rovings; that they may not forget God, but be held within holy compass, wheresoever we become, or whatsoever we go §Cabout: for there must not be in us at any time an evil heart.2
The second is when, although wee bee desirous to vse it,1 and that for our helpe and edifying, yet our heads are so full of trifling and wandring phantasies, or worldly matters, that wee cannot minde those heauenly things, which are so contrarie to them: And from hence ariseth a wearines of it, & an hastning to more libertie, that our hearts may raunge where they list, which is that §Bwhich they most of all desire. And although through the very corruption of nature, the best of Gods children doe complaine, that they doe not the good they would, and therefore not this good sometimes (notwithstanding they mislike that it should bee so, and resist it:) yet the especiall cause of this vnsauourie, wearisome, and vntoward taking in hand, or setting vpon so holy and heauenly a part of Gods worship, is another besides this: that is to say, the letting loose of our hearts all the day (as I haue had occasion to say in another place) disordredly, without watching ouer them, and calling them backe from such endlesse rouings; that they may not forget God, but bee held within holie compasse, wheresoeuer we become, or whatsoeuer we goe