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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
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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.
The fourth is free pardon of all his sins past, his soul 1being washed in the blood of Christ from all his sins, so as now they were as white as snow, though they had been read like scarlet, 1. Joh. 1. 7. Isaiah 1. 18. What rest & peace would this breed in our hearts, if we did daily think of it in ⟨p. 38⟩our own particulars, that we had obtained pardon and remission of all our sins.
The fourth is free pardon of all his sins past, his soule 1being washed in the bloud of Christ from all his sins, so as now they were as white as snow, though they had beene redde like scarlet, 1. Ioh. 1. 7. Esay 1. 18. What rest & peace would this breed in our hearts, if we did daily thinke of it in ⟨p. 38⟩our owne particulars, that wee had obtained pardon and remission of all our sinnes.
- 1The fourth is, for givenes of all sins.The fourth is, for giuenes of all sinnes.
The fifth privilege is, the inhabitation of the Holy 1Ghost. The soul and body of a Christian, is the Temple of the Holy Ghost, and the Spirit of God doth verily and truly dwell within the breast of a Christian, and that not in a naked presence; but the holy Ghost is there, to teach him to guide him into all truth, to tell him when he is ready to go out of the way, on the right hand, or on the left, and to comfort him in