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How to live, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps…How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps…
How to live, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts fail.How to liue, and that well in all estates and times, specially when helps and comforts faile.
printed by John Legat, 1601printed by Iohn Legat, 1601
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.
The fourth and last thing in this change is, that faith in Christ, or in the word believed, must reign and rule in the heart: bringing the whole man in subjection to the whole word of god. And this faith in Christ doth: because when it is once settled in the heart, it works in us a full and settled faith of every part of the word of God; namely of his precepts and of his threats. Here then our duty is to subject our selves by means of our faith to the whole word: and to suffer nothing within us but it alone to bear sway.1 This is the will of God: let the word ⟨p. 82⟩of God dwell in you plentifully. The good ground yields it self & gives place, that the seed may take deep root. It is a blessed thing to have the kingdom of God erected in our hearts: now this kingdom is erected, when the word of God keeps all the powers of body and soul in subjection. And when our faith in Christ brings our thoughts, affections, words, deeds, sufferings in subjection to the word of God, then we live by faith.
The fourth and last thing in this change is, that faith in Christ, or in the word beleeued, must raigne and rule in the heart: bringing the whole man in subiection to the whole word of god. And this faith in Christ doth: because when it is once setled in the heart, it workes in vs a ful and setled faith of euery part of the word of God; namely of his precepts and of his threats. Here then our dutie is to subiect our selues by meanes of our faith to the whole word: and to suffer nothing within vs but it alone to beare sway.1 This is the will of God: let the word ⟨p. 82⟩of God dwell in you plentifully. The good groūd yelds it selfe & giues place, that the seed may take deepe roote. It is a blessed thing to haue the kingdome of God erected in our hearts: now this kingdome is erected, when the word of God keepes all the powers of bodie and soule in subiection. And when our faith in Christ brings our thoughts, affections, words, deedes, sufferings in subiection to the word of God, then we liue by faith.
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