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The signs or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods love, and mans salvation…The signes or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods loue, and mans saluation…
The signs or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods love, and mans salvation gathered out of the holy Scriptures. By Nicholas Byfield, one of the preachers for the city of Chester.The signes or An essay concerning the assurance of Gods loue, and mans saluation gathered out of the holy Scriptures. By Nicholas Byfield, one of the preachers for the citty of Chester.
London: printed by John Beale for Jonah Man, 1614London: printed by Iohn Beale for Ionas Man, 1614
A SHORT Treatise concerning Assurance. › Section 5: 5. Faith.
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.
Sixthly, in affliction it layeth hold on Gods promise or providence, so as it will rest with quietness,1 trust and patience, and not make hast to the use of evil, and unwarranted means, he that believeth maketh not hast.
Sixtly, in affliction it laieth hold on Gods promise or prouidence, so as it will rest with quietness,1 trust and patience, and not make hast to the vse of euill, and vnwarranted meanes, he that beleeueth maketh not hast.
- 1Isaiah 25. 16.Esay 25. 16.
Thirdly, it may be tried by the concomitants of it. for;
Thirdly, it may bee tried by the concomitants of it. for;
First, it is •ealed by the holy spirit of promise; ⟨p. 62⟩for in every believer the promised spirit doth print in his heart the saving graces of Christ,1 from the sight of which, as from so many marks, compared with Gods promises in his word, ariseth by the effectual working of the spirit, this assurance or persuasion of faith: for though grace and faith be given together, and grow up together, yet the assurance of faith discovers not it self, till it discern those companions of it