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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.
Sol. I gave the land to your Fathers: you hold these outward blessings, not by your deserts, but by my gift, and my gift is ancient, ⟨p. 172⟩I bestowed these things on your Fathers.
Sol. I gaue the land to your Fathers: you hold these outward blessings, not by your deserts, but by my gift, and my gift is ancient, ⟨p. 172⟩I bestowed these things on your Fathers.
12. Ob. It may be so; our Fathers were in covenant with God, and more eminent men, and more worthy then we.
12. Ob. It may bee so; our Fathers were in couenant with God, and more eminent men, and more worthy then we.
Solu. Ye shall be my people, and I will be your God: Gods covenant of grace is with the Fathers, and their generations after them: if he have been thy Fathers God, he will be thy God also, and thou shalt be of his people.
Solu. Yee shall be my people, and I will bee your God: Gods couenant of grace is with the Fathers, and their generations after them: if he haue beene thy Fathers God, hee will be thy God also, and thou shalt bee of his people.