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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.
1. Without weariness. It is required as a thing necessary to the manner of well-doing, that we be not weary of it, and that we faint not, Gal. 6. 9. This we must strive for by prayer.
1. Without wearinesse. It is required as a thing necessarie to the manner of well-doing, that we be not wearie of it, and that wee faint not, Gal. 6. 9. This we must striue for by prayer.
2. Without discouragement; we 1must lift up the hands that hang down, and the feeble knees, and make straight steppes to our feet. How much hinderance to well-doing, discouragement is, may appear by this similitude: Feeble knees will dispatch but a little space of the journey, and hands that hang down, are not fit for work: great is the hinderance comes to many by their discouragements and aptness thereunto, which ariseth usually from pride, and the dregs of worldly sorrow, and ought much to be resisted by true Christians,