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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 his appetite to his Word. For there is in a godly man as true an hunger after the Word, as the food of his soul; as there is in his stomach after the food of his body; which shows it self to be the more sincere, because it is constant; he desires the ⟨p. 150⟩Word at all times, and as his appointed food daily; as it is in the bodily appetite, though after feeding, the stomach may seem to be full and satisfied, yet the hunger revives again every day, so is it with the heart of a Child of God: whereas wicked men regard the Word but by fits, and in a passion, and then at length fall clean away from the affection to it, Psal. 119. 20. Job 23. 12.
2 By his appetite to his Word. For there is in a godly man as true an hūger after the Word, as the food of his soule; as there is in his stomacke after the food of his body; which shewes it selfe to be the more sincere, because it is constant; hee desires the ⟨p. 150⟩Word at all times, and as his appointed foode daily; as it is in the bodily appetite, though after feeding, the stomack may seeme to bee full and satisfied, yet the hunger reuiues againe euery day, so is it with the heart of a Child of God: whereas wicked men regard the Word but by fits, and in a passion, and then at length fall cleane away from the affection to it, Psal. 119. 20. Iob 23. 12.
3. By his love to them that love the Word.
3. By his loue to them that loue the Word.