A10945:973
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.
1Now to go forward to the second, which is, that the Christian life cannot §Gstand without it. He that is willing to live Christianly throughout his life, (for God giveth us no liberty of intermission or stay) he must not be content to have this knowledge of the armour swimming in his brain, or lying by him in a book, but to be digested of him, and made his own, and no more stand at the putting on of this holy armour, then to doubt of the truth of it: he must always be ready to clothe and furnish his soul with the several parts of it (to cover the nakedness and shame thereof, and to make it comely and well favoured in the sight of God) as his body with apparel: and to arm it therewith as the soldier is with his Corselet, head-piece, sword, &c. because by it, God hath appointed to defend him, from the spiritual §Hcraftiness of his deadly enemy the devil, and from the deceitfulness of the most noisome sin.
1Now to go forward to the second, which is, that the Christian life cannot §Gstand without it. He that is willing to liue Christianly throughout his life, (for God giueth vs no libertie of intermission or stay) hee must not be content to haue this knowledge of the armour swimming in his braine, or lying by him in a booke, but to be digested of him, and made his owne, and no more stand at the putting on of this holie armour, then to doubt of the truth of it: he must alwaies bee readie to cloath and furnish his soule with the seuerall parts of it (to couer the nakednes and shame thereof, and to make it comely and well fauoured in the sight of God) as his bodie with apparell: and to arme it therewith as the souldier is with his Corselet, head-piece, sword, &c. because by it, God hath appointed to defend him, from the spirituall §Hcraftines of his deadly enemie the diuell, and from the deceitfulnes of the most noisome sinne.
- 1The second point, that the Christian life cannot stand without it.