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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.
The greater thy troubles are, the greater must thy strength be, and the §3more godly must thou be.
The greater thy troubles are, the greater must thy strength bee, and the §3more godly must thou be.
When thy heart can rest in God, and the pleasures which come thereby,1 take in hand all thine affairs soberly, that thy joy be not quenched thereby. It would make one wonder to see, how by such occasions the heart is unsettled.
When thy heart can rest in God, and the pleasures which come thereby,1 take in hand all thine affaires soberly, that thy ioy be not quenched thereby. It would make one wonder to see, how by such occasions the heart is vnsetled.
- 1Sobriety.Sobrietie.
Deadness of spirit,1 loggish unprofitableness (if not wound) take hold of a §1man, when he doth not faithfully make up any breaches made in his conscience, by true returning to God.