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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.
4. Because if the Lord quench his thirst, and satisfy his desire in spiritual things, the soul becomes ⟨p. 148⟩as a watered garden; and then follows in him an heavenly kind of satisfaction and contentment, with singular delight in the soul, and vows and wishes of infinite and eternal thankfulness, Psalm 63. 4, 5. Jeremiah 31. 25, 26.
4. Because if the Lord quench his thirst, and satisfie his desire in spirituall things, the soule becomes ⟨p. 148⟩as a watred garden; and then followes in him an heauenly kinde of satisfaction and contentment, with singular delight in the soule, and vowes and wishes of infinite and eternall thankfulnesse, Psalme 63. 4, 5. Ieremiah 31. 25, 26.
And thus much of the first gift.
Secondly, The love to the 1Word is another sign that he is the Child of God, and a clear evidence of his salvation. Now because all sorts of wicked men may resort to the exercises of the Word, and those that have but a temporary faith may show a great estimation of the Word, and find joy in the hearing of it, and show much zeal in things that concern the word, and may yield some obedience to the directions of the Word also: it is profitable to consider how the true Christian may prove that his affection to the Word is more