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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.
7. Ob. If thou sayest, thou art ashamed of the ignorance, which is more then can be conceived.
7. Ob. If thou saist, thou art ashamed of the igno rance, which is more then can be conceiued.
Sol. He answers, that he is abundant in truth to supply thy defects, & to perform his promise, though thou have but a little faith.
Sol. He answers, that he is abundant in truth to supply thy defects, & to performe his promise, though thou haue but a little faith.
8. Ob. If thou say thou doest believe that God is all this unto some men, & that Abraham, and David, and others that were in great favour with GOD, ⟨p. 164⟩have found all this. But for thy self thou art so vile a creature, and so mean a person, as it is not for thee to expect such great things of God,
8. Ob. If thou say thou doest beleeue that God is all this vnto some men, & that Abraham, and Dauid, and others that were in great fauour with GOD, ⟨p. 164⟩haue found all this. But for thy selfe thou art so vile a creature, and so meane a person, as it is not for thee to expectsuch great things of God,