A17397:1882
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.
Seventhly, he must not be the servant of men, 1. Cor. 7. 23. Other 1mens humours must not be the direction of his practice. H• must so depend upon persons by hopes to get any thing by in this world, as he be not thereby hindered in works of Religion, knowing, that he is Christs freeman.
Seuenthly, hee must not be the seruāt of men, 1. Cor. 7. 23. Other 1mens humours must not be the directiō of his practice. H• must so depēd vpon persons by hopes to get any thing by in this world, as he be not thereby hindered in workes of Religion, knowing, that he is Christs freeman.
- 17. He must not be the servant of men.7. He must not be the seruant of men.
He must haste to, and look for 1the coming of Jesus Christ, 2. Pet. 3. 12. He must often remember ⟨p. 460⟩his latter end, and daily set before his eyes the coming of Christ, striving to stir up in his heart the desire after Christ, praying for it, and dispatching those works that may prepare him thereunto. The remembrance of our accounts in the day of Christ, will wonderfully quicken men to the care of well-doing; and the cause of viciousness, and miserable neglect, and procrastinations of many, is, their forgetting of their latter end. A great reason why the directions about godliness are not entertained, is, because men put far away from them the Day of the Lord: whereas the remembrance of the revelation of Jesus Christ, would put spirit and life into us. He dares not say from the heart, Come, Lord Jesus, come quickly, that is not resolved diligently to work the works of Christ.