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The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatisesThe marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises
The marrow of the oracles of God. Or, divers treatises containing directions about six of the weightiest things can concern a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The marrovv of the oracles of God. Or, diuers treatises containing directions about sixe of the waightiest things can concerne a Christian in this life. by N. Bifield, late preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by John Legatt, 1630
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.
CHAP. IIII.
Showing unto the wicked the hope to be saved, if the fault be not in himself.
Shewing vnto the wicked the hope to be saued, if the fault be not in himselfe.
Hitherto of the signs of wicked men, who must be persuaded to abide the trial without despair; for the signs do not show them, that they cannot be saved; but only, that for the present they are not in the estate of salvation actually, which though it may, and ought to be grievous unto them, to consider in what fearful misery and sin they live in: yet they have reason to know and believe, that they may be saved as well as others: yea the acknowledgement ⟨p. 227⟩of their misery is one step to salvation.
HItherto of the signes of wicked men, who must bee perswaded to abide the tryall without despaire; for the signes doe not shew them, that they cannot be saued; but onely, that for the present they are not in the estate of saluation actually, which though it may, and ought to be grieuous vnto them, to consider in what fearefull misery and sinne they liue in: yet they haue reason to know and beleeue, that they may bee saued as well as others: yea the acknowledgemēt ⟨p. 227⟩of their misery is one step to saluation.