A10945:849
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.
When men receive not the word with meekness, that it may be engrafted in them, 1Jam. 1.21. and do not so hear, that they may believe (Act. 14.1.) but take a taste and a liking, at the most: I deny not, but for some cause, one may hold ⟨p. 250⟩out longer then another: but if they go not forward, ye shall see them fall §Funto nothing: for a momentany and weak desire is not enough to hold up a godly life, but a delight in it, which faith worketh.
When men receiue not the word with meeknes, that it may be ingraffed in them, 1Iam. 1.21. and doe not so heare, that they may beleeue (Act. 14.1.) but take a taste and a liking, at the most: I denie not, but for some cause, one may hold ⟨p. 250⟩out longer then another: but if they goe not forward, ye shall see them fall §Fvnto nothing: for a momentany and weake desire is not enough to hold vp a godly life, but a delight in it, which faith worketh.
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