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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.
By outward afflictions I mean such as these; 1wants, losses, wrongs, troubles, exile, imprisonment, sickness, fears, poverty, or any other thing, wherewith the life of man is molested in any condition.
By outward afflictions I meane such as these; 1wants, losses, wrongs, troubles, exile, imprisonment, sicknesse, feares, pouerty, or any other thing, wherewith the life of man is molested in any condition.
- 1What meant by outward afflictions.
Now there are many 1excellent ways of abundant comforts against these, or any of these, as
Now there are many 1excellent waies of aboundant comforts against these, or any of these, as
- 1The godly man may comfort himself against afflictions, by the consideration, 1 Of the commonnes of them.The godly man may comfort himselfe against afflictions, by the consideration, 1 Of the commonnes of them.
1 First, if we consider but the commonness of them, all things fall alike in these things,