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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.
Therefore as the Lord by his Prophets hath cried out against the people in sundry ages, that they perished because they would not understand, 1nor at all consider their estate, and as there shall be an end of their deceivable delights, although they cannot be brought to think of their end and account: so he speaketh as plainly, and hath done from time to time of this, that although in ⟨p. 244⟩the world we shall have tribulation, 2even we whom God hath chosen out of the §Fworld; yet seeing we are strangers here, we cannot neither may we place our hearts delight and felicity here, but our chiefest comfort must be to have daily communion with God, and to have our conversation in heaven, with him, (unto the which, meditation is a singular help) and what weighty matters soever we be busied about, yet to remember our maker in them all, that he be pleased and trusted in of us.
Therefore as the Lord by his Prophets hath cried out against the people in sundrie ages, that they perished because they would not vnderstand, 1nor at all consider their estate, and as there shall be an end of their deceiueable delights, although they cannot be brought to thinke of their end and account: so hee speaketh as plainly, and hath done from time to time of this, that although in ⟨p. 244⟩the world we shall haue tribulation, 2euen we whom God hath chosen out of the §Fworld; yet seeing we are strangers here, we cannot neither may we place our hearts delight and felicitie here, but our chiefest comfort must be to haue daily communion with God, and to haue our conuersation in heauen, with him, (vnto the which, meditation is a singular helpe) and what waightie matters soeuer we be busied about, yet to remember our maker in them all, that he be pleased and trusted in of vs.