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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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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.
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, Jerem. 18. 18. ⟨p. 73⟩False witnesses were suborned against Stephen, and that in case of Religion, Acts 6. 11. 13. 14. Many & grievous complaints were laid against Paul, Act. 25. 7. Yea, it was the condition of all the Apostles, and the principal men of the Christian world, to be made a spectacle to men and Angels, and to be accounted forlorn, and as the off-scouring of all things, 1. Cor. 4. 9. 10. 13. And our Saviour Christ supposeth the case of any blessed man, that men may say all manner of evil sayings of them, Matth. 5. 12, &c.
Ninthly, why should we 1be troubled at that which is the lot of all the Saints? We haue heard of Dauid before, how he was slandered by many, and on euery side, Psalm. 31. 12. 13. Ieremy complaines, that they consulted how to deuise deuices against him, and how they might smite him with the tongue, Ierem. 18. 18. ⟨p. 73⟩False witnesses were suborned against Stephen, and that in case of Religion,