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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.
The first thing which any man 1disposing himself for the Kingdom of God, will and ought to inquire after, is, What he should do to be rid of those so many sinne• he hath been and is guilty of? Rid (I say) from th• guilt and danger of them, and from the power and dominion of them. For the satisfaction of thy conscience in this most needful question, I have in this first Treatise gathered for thee, out of the whole Bible, a Catalogue of those sins, which in our repentance God will have with special notice to be confessed and avoided. And ⟨p. 3⟩these sins I have set down, as near as I could, in the express words of the text, that thou mightest see the Lord himself describing thy offences: and so mightest have no excuse or doubt, to imagine that it was but the judgement of some men, that made such things to be thought to be sins. By this course of surveying the whole Scriptures, I have both found out divers particular offences plainly proved to be so, which I could not observe to be mentioned in any exposition of the commandments which I had, and also divers things proved clearly to be sins, which were only barely •ffirmed to be so in other writers. I have likewise plainly showed thee by express Scripture, what course thou mayest distinctly take to be rid of thy sins: a course that cannot fail thee, being grounded on the most evident directions, ⟨p. 4⟩which God himself hath prescribed unto thee, if thy own slothfulness & procrastination, or wilful perverseness binder thee not: And I doubt not but by experience thou wilt confess, the course is comfortable & easy, considering the great benefit and rest thou mayest bring to thy conscience thereby.
The first thing which any man 1disposing himselfe for the Kingdome of God, will and ought to inquire after, is, What he should doe to be rid of those so many sinne• he hath beene and is guilty of? Rid (I say) from th• guilt and danger of them, and from the power and dominion of them. For the satisfaction of thy conscience in this most needfull question, I haue in this first Treatise gathered for thee, out of the whole Bible, a Catalogue of those sinnes, which in our repentance God will haue with speciall notice to be confessed and auoided. And