A17397:1931
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.
Now this simplicity contains in it distinctly divers things.
Now this simplicity containes in it distinctly diuers things.
1. A resting in those forms of holiness and happiness which 1God hath prescribed, when a man desires no more to make him happy, then what God hath offered and given in Jesus Christ, 2. Corinth. 11. 3. and when he ⟨p. 484⟩accounts nothing to defile him, but what God hath forbidden, and nothing needful to be done by him, what God hath in his word required.
1. A resting in those formes of holinesse and happinesse which 1God hath prescribed, when a man desires no more to make him happy, then what God hath offered and giuen in Iesus Christ, 2. Corinth. 11. 3. and when hee ⟨p. 484⟩accounts nothing to defile him, but what God hath forbidden, and nothing needfull to be done by him, what God hath in his word required.
- 11 To rest upon the Word for the forms of holiness and happiness.1 To rest vpon the Word for the formes of holines and happines.