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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.
HE that would walk uprightly, 1or take a sound course to continue in his uprightness, must earnestly look to these rules:
HEE that would walke vprightly, 1or take a sound course to continue in his vprightnesse, must earnestly looke to these rules:
- 1How sound sincerity of conversation may be formed in thee.How sound sincerity of conuersation may be formed in thee.
1. If thou have been guilty of any gross sin, know it is unpossible thy heart should be upright, till thou have with special repentance humbled thy self before God for that sin; and that also by conscionable practise thou keep thy self from the great transgression, Psalm 19. 13.
1. If thou haue beene guiltie of any grosse sinne, know it is vnpossible thy heart should bee vpright, till thou haue with speciall repentance humbled thy selfe before God for that sinne; and that also by conscionable practise thou keep thy selfe from the great transgression, Psalme 19. 13.
2. Thou must in a special manner watch and strive against hypocrisy, and that in two things chiefly: First, that in thy setting out into religion, thou fashion not thy course more to get credit then grace. Secondly, that in Gods service thou by all means avoid distractions, and so resist and check thy proneness of heart thereunto, judging thy self severely, when thou so offendest, till thou be able in some happy degree to serve God with thy spirit as well as with thy body. The habit of dissembling with God is extremely dangerous.