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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.
CHAP. III.
Showing the privileges of the godly above all other people.
Shewing the priuiledges of the godly aboue all other people.
The first sort of promises, or comfortable places of Scripture, are such as in general show the happiness of the godly in all estates of life; these I call privileges. These are such comforts as are not restrained unto some certain time, but are such as he is enriched with all at all times: These we ought to know as the foundation ⟨p. 32⟩of all the rest, and we should strive to have them perfectly in our memories, so as any time we could number them if need were.
THe first sort of promises, or comfortable places of Scripture, are such as in general shew the happinesse of the godly in all estates of life; these I call priuiledges. These are such comforts as are not restrained vnto some certaine time, but are such as he is inriched with all at all times: These we ought to know as the foundation ⟨p. 32⟩of all the rest, and wee should striue to haue them perfectly in our memories, so as any time we could number them if need were.