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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.
Quest. But when I am tempted, how may I know that I am not overcome of the temptation?
Quest. But when I am tempted, how may I know that I am not ouercome of the temptation?
An. Observe thine own 1heart in the entertainment of those vile injections. If thou abhor them as soon as they come in, and give no manner of consent unto them, thou art free. For Christ himself was tempted ⟨p. 127⟩by evil cogitations cast into his mind: (for 2the Apostle saith) He was tempted in like manner as we are, and yet he was not guilty of the evil of the temptation. It is true, that for the most part we are infected in some degree or other by it: but yet it is not impossible for man to be free from the evil of temptation, as that example shows.
An. Obserue thine own 1heart in the entertainment of those vilde iniections. If thou abhorthem as soon as they come in, and giue no manner of consent vnto them, thou art free. For Christ himselfe was tempted ⟨p. 127⟩by euill cogitations cast into his minde: (for 2the Apostle saith) He was tempted in like manner as wee are, and yet he was not guilty of the euill of the temptation. It is true, that for the most part wee are infected in some degree or other by it: but yet it is not impossible for man to bee free from the euill of temptation, as that example shewes.
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