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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.
Tenthly, he is fearful of being deceived, and therefore is not 1slightly satisfied. He will not rest upon a common hope, nor is he carried with probabilities; nor doth it content him that other men have a good opinion of him; nor is he pleased that he hath mended some faults or begun to repent: but repenting he repents still, that is, he takes a sound course to be sure his repentance be effectually performed, Jeremiah 31. 16.
Tenthly, he is fearefull of being deceiued, and therefore is not 1slightly satisfied. He will not rest vpon a common hope, nor is hee carried with probabilities; nor doth it content him that other men haue a good opinion of him; nor is hee pleased that hee hath mended some faults or begun to repent: but repenting he repents stil, that is, he takes a sound course to bee sure his repentance be effectually performed, Ieremie 31. 16.
- 110 And is fearful of being deceived.10 And is fearefull of being deceiued.
Eleventhly, he is vehemently 1carried with the desires of the sound reformation of his life. His sorrow is not water but washing; nor is it every washing, but such as maketh clean. Worldly sorrow may have much water, but it maketh nothing clean; whereas godly sorrow always tendeth ⟨p. 125⟩to reformation & sound amendment.