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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.
If he cannot thus do, let him read before, some part of the hundred and nineteen Psalm: some of the epistles of the Apostles: Christs sermons,1 or §Dsome part of this direction, or some meditations, which follow, so many as conveniently he may, or any good matter fit for this purpose to season & well affect his mind: that so he may learn how to perform this duty, and quicken up him self to it oft & from time to time, when he once knoweth how. If he cannot read, he must desire more help of others: and for want of help, he must needs look to go the more slowly forward, either in the right, and kind use of meditation, or in any part of sound godliness, and Christianity: seeing we cannot be ignorant of this, that the old subtle fowler sets his snares and nets so thick in our way, that we have no shift, but to fall into them, and light upon them, except with the wings of meditation §Eand prayer we mount up on high above them, and fly over them.
If he cannot thus doe, let him reade before, some part of the hundred and nineteene Psalme: some of the epistles of the Apostles: Christs sermons,1 or §Dsome part of this direction, or some meditations, which follow, so many as conueniently he may, or any good matter fit for this purpose to season & wel affect his mind: that so he may learne how to performe this duty, and quicken vp him selfe to it oft & from time to time, when he once knoweth how. If he cannot reade, he must desire more helpe of others: and for want of helpe, he must needes looke to goe the more slowly forward, either in the right, and kinde vse of meditation, or in any part of sound godlines, and Christianitie: seeing we cannot be ignorant of this, that the old subtill fowler sets his snares and nettes so thicke in our way, that we haue no shift, but to fall into them, and light vpon them, except with the winges of meditation §Eand prayer wee mount vp on high aboue them, and flie ouer them.
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