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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
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And if it be thus with such, as have some good and sound beginnings in §BChristianity, let no man marvel, though they, who are utterly destitute of faith, and of other parts of the Christian armour, be so far off from good life as they be, seeing they renounce this arming of themselves, which I have proved, that a Christian life cannot be without.
And if it be thus with such, as haue some good and sound beginnings in §BChristianitie, let no man meruaile, though they, who are vtterly destitute of faith, and of other parts of the Christian armour, be so farre off from good life as they be, seeing they renounce this arming of themselues, which I haue proued, that a Christian life cannot be without.
And now by this which hath been said of the armour hitherto, it is the easier to understand what it is, and what the parts of it are,1 and how the Christian life cannot stand without it. Now I will proceed (as I have promised) to the third point in this matter concerning the armour, namely, how it should be put on, and be worn, that so we may better see how to take that good by it, which God offereth us. For which end and purpose it is to be §Cmarked, that every true believer in his first conversion to God, is thereby made partaker of all things pertaining to life and godliness, 2and therefore is not destitute of any common grace of a true Christian: having them, as a child lately borne, all the parts and faculties of soul and body, though weak in all: amongst which, these that are here compared to armour, are principal.
And now by this which hath been said of the armour hitherto, it is the easier to vnderstand what it is, and what the parts of it are,