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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
Solu. That was Davids case: Fear was on every side, he heard the railings of great men, which consulted together against him, Psalm 31. 13.
Solu. That was Dauids case: Feare was on euery side, he heard the railings of great men, which consulted together against him, Psalm 31. 13.
6. Ob. But I am sentenced and accused as an evil doer most unjustly, and that publicly.
6. Ob. But I am sentenced and accused as an euill doer most vniustly, and that publikely.
Sol. So was our Saviour ⟨p. 83⟩Christ, & that by a whole Council of men, Mat. 27. 1. John. 11. 47. 48. and so was Stephen, Act. 6. 12. and so were the Apostles, Act. 4. 6. 15. and 5. 27. and so was Paul, Act. 23. 1. The most righteous may suffer as evil doers, 2. Tim. 2. 9. The wicked so compass about the righteous, that many times wrong judgment proceedeth,