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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.
First, solitariness: the Devil watched to find 1the woman alone from her husband, and then set upon her. Such persons as love solitariness, love not their own souls; for they give great advantage to Satan to assault them and circumvent them, & therefore we should take heed of it.
First, solitarinesse: the Diuell watched to finde 1the woman alone from her husband, and then set vpon her. Such persons as loue solitarinesse, loue not their owne soules; for they giue great aduantage to Sathan to assault them and circumuent them, & therefore we should take heede of it.
- 1Solitariness.Solitarines.
The second occasion is security, when the Devil 1spies that men be careless, and keep no watch over their own hearts, and are reckless in their courses, and go from day to day, and fear not evil, then he ⟨p. 113⟩lies in wait to assault, by injecting some vile or base temptation to sin.
The second occasion is security, when the Deuill 1spies that men be carelesse, and keepe no watch ouer their owne hearts, and are rechlesse in their courses, and goe from day to day, and feare not euill, then he ⟨p. 113⟩lies in wait to assault, by iniecting some vile or base temptation to sinne.