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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.
2. By abstaining from judging of them that are without. It is a most intemperate zeal, that spends it self in the vain and bootless censure of the estate of those that are without. Those censures have in them matter of provocation and nothing of edification. It were happy for some Christians, if they could with the Apostle, say often to their own souls, What have I to do to judge them that are without? 1 Cor. 5. 12, 13.
2. By abstaining from iudging of them that are without. It is a most intemperate zeale, that spends it selfe in the vaine and bootlesse censure of the estate of those that are without. Those censures haue in them matter of prouocation and nothing of edification. It were happy for some Christians, if they could with the Apostle, say often to their owne soules, What haue I to doe to iudge them that are without? 1 Cor. 5. 12, 13.
3. By studying to be quiet, and meddle with our own business; casting about, how to cut off all occasions, by which we might be tangled with any discord or contention, or much business with them. It is a godly ambition to thirst after this quietness of ⟨p. 597⟩life, 1 Thess. 4. 11, 12.
3. By studying to be quiet, and meddle with our owne businesse; casting about, how to cut off all occasions, by which we might bee tangled with any discord or contention, or much businesse with them. It is a godly ambition to thirst after this quietnesse of ⟨p. 597⟩life,