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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.
3. Ob. O but my sins are great and gross sins, I have offended more grievously then other men.
3. Ob. O but my sinnes are great and grosse sins, I haue offended more grieuously then other men.
Sol. From your Idols, & from your filthiness will I cleanse you; though thy sins were as great as Idolatry in the first Table, or ⟨p. 168⟩whoredom in the second, yet God can forgive and sanctify thee.
Sol. From your Idols, & from your filthinesse will I cleanse you; though thy sins were as great as Idolatry in the first Table, or ⟨p. 168⟩whoredom in the second, yet God can forgiue and sanctifie thee.
4. Ob. But my nature is so bad, that if I were forgiven, I should offend again.
4. Ob. But my nature is so bad, that if I were forgiuen, I should offend againe.