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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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8 Eighthly, David easeth himself, by considering 1the cause of his suffering. For thy sake (saith he to God) have I borne reproach, shame hath covered my face: ⟨p. 72⟩The zeal of thy house hath eaten me up, and the reproaches of them that reproached thee, have fallen upon me: when I wept and chastened my soul with fasting, that was to my reproach, Psalm. 69. 7. 9. 10.
8 Eightly, Dauid easeth himselfe, by considering 1the cause of his suffering. For thy sake (saith hee to God) haue I borne reproch, shame hath couered my face: ⟨p. 72⟩The zeale of thy house hath eaten me vp, and the reproches of them that reproched thee, haue fallen vpon mee: when I wept and chastened my soule with fasting, that was to my reproach, Psalme. 69. 7. 9. 10.
- 1Of the cause of thy reproaches.Of the cause of thy reproches.
Ninthly, why should we 1be troubled at that which is the lot of all the Saints? We have heard of David before, how he was slandered by many, and on every side, Psalm. 31. 12. 13. Jeremiah complains, that they consulted how to devise devices against him, and how they might smite him with the tongue,