The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises

TO THE MUCH HONOURED LADY, the Lady Bridget Tracie: Nicholas Bifield wisheth all prosperity in the things of the Kingdom of CHRIST.

TO THE MVCH HONORED LADIE, the Ladie Bridget Tracie: Nicholas Bifield wisheth all prosperity in the things of the Kingdome of CHRIST.

MADAM,

Being destitute of a better gift to bestow upon your Ladyship, to testify my thankfulness or observance, I present this little Treatise unto you. It may have more use then it shows for. For if things shine more ⟨p. 190⟩clearly when their contraries are set by them; then may this description of the estate of a wicked man by Signs, serve much to establish the godly in the point of Assurance, when he seeth himself freed from those fearful & forlorn marks. And if men use to make much of all those directions, by which any gain or treasure may be certainly compassed, then ought the Directions not to be despised, that show how the Spirit of God and the Graces thereof may be attained: For by these directions, both those that want the true graces of Christ, may here learn how to get them; and such as have them but in weak measure, may by the same ⟨p. 191⟩Rules learn how to increase them.

BEing destitute of a better gift to bestow vpon your Ladiship, to testifie my thankefulnesse or obseruance, I present this little Treatise vnto you. It may haue more vse then it shewes for. For if things shine more ⟨p. 190⟩