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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.
1 The first may be taken from his condition ⟨p. 94⟩as it is common to all the godly: For this may stay a mans hart to know for certain, that every man that will live godly, shall be opposed, and must suffer persecutions, 2. Tim. 2. 12.
1 The first may be taken from his condition ⟨p. 94⟩as it is common to all the godly: For this may stay a mans hart to know for certaine, that euery man that will liue godly, shal be opposed, and must suffer persecutions, 2. Tim. 2. 12.
2 The second may be taken from the appointment 1of God herein: and this stands of two branches. First, that God from all eternity hath decreed every mans sufferings this way. Thus Paul lesseneth the thought of the cross, by pleading that God had appointed them thereunto, meaning by his eternal decree, 1. Thessal. 33. Secondly, ⟨p. 95⟩that GOD hath likewise appointed the end, and measure, and deliverance out of the affliction. Thus the Church is comforted, Revel. 2. 10. If it were grievous to them to know that the Devil should raise up wicked men, that should cast them into prison, yet this may refresh them, that GOD hath set the time when they shall come forth again. It shall be but for ten days: It shall neither be so long as the Devil and wicked men would have it, for then they must never come out; nor so ⟨p. 96⟩