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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.
5 Fifthly, if he consider 1the issue that GOD will give, He will give issue out of the temptation, 1. Cor. 10. 13. ⟨p. 124⟩He will tread down Satan, Rom. 16. 20. He will stablish us, after we have suffered a while, 1. Pet. 5. 9, 10. If we resist the Devil, he shall fly from us, Jam. 4. 7. 8. If he lead us into temptation, he will deliver us from evil, Math. 6. 13. The Lord will break the head of the great Leviathan, the crooked serpent, the Dragon of the Sea, Isay, 27. 1.
5 Fiftly, if he consider 1the issue that GOD will giue, He will giue issue out of the temptation, 1. Cor. 10. 13. ⟨p. 124⟩He will tread down Sathan, Rom. 16. 20. He will stablish vs, after wee haue suffered a while, 1. Pet. 5. 9, 10. If wee resist the Deuill, he shall flye from vs, Iam. 4. 7. 8. If hee lead vs into temptation, hee will deliuer vs from euill, Math. 6. 13. The Lord will breake the head of the great Leuiathan, the crooked serpent, the Dragon of the Sea, Isay, 27. 1.