A17397:1870
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.
Sixthly, he must avoid vain 1questions, and fruitless contemplations, ⟨p. 454⟩Tit. 3. 9. 1. Tim. 6. 20. 2 Tim. 2. 23. When the light of doctrine was so great in the Primitive times, this was one practice of Satan, to draw aside the studies of Christians from necessary and solid truths, to Genealogies, or quarrels about words or vain controversies, falsely called oppositions of science. We must therefore be warned of this method of Satan; and till we know clearly the ways of life, allow our selves no time for more remote studies, or fruitless controversies. What riches of knowledge might some Christians have attained to, if they had spent the time (they have employed about controversies, genealogies, and general knowledge) in the sound building of themselves up in such things as their s•ules apparently stand in need of?
Sixthly, he must auoide vaine 1questions, and fruitlesse contemplations, ⟨p. 454⟩Tit. 3. 9. 1. Tim. 6. 20. 2 Tim. 2. 23. When the light of doctrine was so great in the Primitiue times, this was one practice of Satan, to draw aside the studies of Christians from necessarie and solid truths, to Genealogies, or quarrels about words or vaine controuersies, falsly called oppositions of science. We must therefore be warned of this method of Satan; and till we know cleerely the wayes of life, allow our selues no time for more remote studies, or fruitlesse controuersies. What riches of knowledge might some Christians haue attained to, if they had spent the time (they haue employed about controuersies, genealogies, and generall knowledge) in the sound building of themselues vp in such things as their sules apparently stand in need of?