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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.
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, Eccles. 9. 2, 3. Every man that is born of a ⟨p. 49⟩woman, hath but few days, and is full of trouble, Job 14. 1. Christ hath no Disciple but he is told aforehand, He must take up his Cross, and that daily, Luk. 9. 24. There can be no affliction, but what accompanieth, or may accompany the nature of man, 1. Cor. 10. 13. The same afflictions are accomplished upon our brethren which are through the world, 1. Pet. 5. 9. And we have the Prophets & greatest worthies of the Lord, for an example of suffering, Jam. 5. 10