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.

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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.
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Rogers, Richard, 1550?-1618.
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At London :: Imprinted by Felix Kyngston, for Thomas Man, and Robert Dexter, and are to be sold at the brasen Serpent in Pauls Churchyard,
1603.
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10945.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 10, 2024.

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CHAP. 7.
  • 3. EVill lusts concerning our selues. [ g.]
  • Fretting when we be crossed of our will. [ h.]
  • Excessiue delight in aboundance. [ i.]
  • Pride of life. [ k.]
  • Frowardnesse. [ 109. a.]
  • Selfe-loue. &c. [ b.]
  • The word of God maketh his Children wa∣ry against these. [ c.]
  • A speciall part of a godly life, to renounce these. [ d.]
  • It is not done without daily striuing. [ e.]
  • Lusts marre all. [ 110. f.]
  • Weake seruice accepted, if it be sound. [ g.]
  • He that obserues these lusts and resists them, is occupied in a godly life. [ h.]
  • All ouercome not these alike. [ i.]
  • The better sort how farre they come, and how. [ k.]
  • Examples of such. [ 111. a.]
  • The weaker are not to distrust for not matching the best. [ b.]
  • These lusts are resisted of all beleeuers in their measure. [ e.]
  • They who be ruled by their lusts, can claime no part in a godly life. [ 112. f.]
  • The weake may stay their comfort in these three speciall graces. [ g.]
  • 1. That they haue a cleere knowledge of their saluation.
  • 2. That they account it as their chiefe trea∣sure.
  • 3. That they be set forward in some good course, whereby they may grow in faith and obedience.
  • These three must be earnestly laboured for. [ i.]
  • The chiefe end of this booke, is to set forward a weake Christian. [ 113. a.]
  • How to make godlinesse, a pleasure. [ b.]
  • The gaine of such a course. [ c.]
  • Why God witholds some grace from his. [ d.]
  • Causes in our selues of not growing. [ 114. f.]
  • Ignorance.
  • Slouth.
  • Fauouring sinne.
  • Timorousnesse and vnbeleefe.
  • Remedy of our vnbeleefe. [ g.]
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