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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
THE CURE OF THE FEAR OF DEATH. › Chapter 4THE CVRE OF THE FEARE OF DEATH. › Chapter 4
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.
3. The day of Death is the day 1of receiving wages, wherein God pays to every godly man his penny. And doth not the hireling long for the time wherein he shall receive wages for his work? Job 7. 2. And the rather should we long for this time, because we shall receive wages infinitely above our work; such wages as was never given by man, nor can be, if all this visible world were given us.
3. The day of Death is the day 1of receiuing wages, wherin God payes to euery godly man his penny. And doth not the hireling long for the time wherein hee shall receiue wages for his worke? Iob 7. 2. And the rather should wee long for this time, because we shall receiue wages infinitely aboue our worke; such wages as was neuer giuen by man, nor can be, if all this visible world were giuen vs.
- 13. It is the day of receiving wages.3. It is the day of receiuing wages.
4. In death the servant comes to his freedom, and the heir is 1at his full age; and it is such a liberty as is glorious: never such a freedom in the world, Rom. 8. 21. Shall the heir desire to be still under age, and so still under Tutors and Governors? or shall the servant fear the day of his freedom?
4. In death the seruant comes to his freedome, and the heire is