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The promises
The promises: or, A treatise showing how a godly Christian may support his heart with comfort against all the distresses which by reason of any afflictions or temptations can befall him in this life. Containing all the most comfortable places through the whole Bible, orderly digested. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The promises: or, A treatise shewing how a godly Christian may support his heart with comfort against all the distresses which by reason of any afflictions or temptations can befall him in this life. Containing al the most comfortable places through the whole Bible, orderly digested. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by G. Purslowe for Ralph Rounthwaite, 1619
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5 Fifthly, the same persons 1that now reproach thee, may be so turned about by the power and grace of God, that in the day of their visitation they ⟨p. 70⟩will admire thee, and glorify God for thee, 1. Peter. 2. 12.
5 Fiftly, the same persons 1that now reproach thee, may be so turned about by the power and grace of God, that in the day of their visitation they ⟨p. 70⟩will admire thee, and glorifie God for thee, 1. Peter. 2. 12.
- 1Of praise from them that now reproach thee.
6 Sixthly, we should be 1the less troubled with our reproaches, because this is not to resist unto blood. God deals favourably with us. If we had lived in the days of our Fathers, when to profess the Gospel of Christ, had been occasion of terrible death; then we might have had some pretence of grievance. But now in these days, when the hurt is done only with the tongue of infamous men, it is a great weakness to be ⟨p. 71⟩disquieted, Hebr. 12. 3