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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.
CHAP. 4. §CHow this knowledge worketh, and namely, the first work that God maketh them believe their misery, and to be troubled in mind for it.
CHAP. 4. §CHow this knowledge worketh, and namely, the first worke that God maketh them beleeue their miserie, and to be troubled in minde for it.
There is yet wanting the true embracing and applying of Christ, with all the merits of his death and passion,1 to this man that hath the foresaid knowledge, or else he can in no wise be happy. Let us see therefore how this knowledge worketh in him, on whom God will show mercy, how God by the light and help of it draweth him forward, until he believe for his own part, and in his own person, which the other, §Dwho have only the general knowledge before mentioned, never attained to. And this is the last of the three points, which I purposed to handle about this matter, namely in showing who is the child of God. Which being done, the question in hand shall appear and be manifest. This only by the way it shall be fit to admonish the reader of (as I said before) that he is in no way to the kingdom of heaven, who is yet void of this knowledge altogether, of his misery (I mean) and of the remedy: which kind of people, although they are least troubled in their consciences of all other men, but are merry,2 as though no danger were coming toward them (and therefore keep a course in their lives which is after the fashion of the world) are to be pitied §Eand prayed for, and to be persuaded to hear the word preached, rather then to be allowed in their madness and folly. Who verify most rightly the saying of the Wise man: That there is a way that seemeth pleasant to them,