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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
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.
Gods poor have eight properties.
Gods poore haue eight properties.
First, They are sensible, and that first of their own wants and misery, by nature and daily sin. Secondly, they know when they see Gods judgements,1 that it was the word of ⟨p. 21⟩the Lord. Thirdly, they tremble at Gods word,2 and fear his displeasure, while it yet hangs in the threatening. Fourthly, they are sensible of that special goodness of Gods mercy;3 when a man is poor and needy, he can say with David, mercy is good. 4Fifthly, they are sensible of their own mortality: they have feeling impressions of their fading condition.
First, They are sensible, and that first of their owne wants and misery, by nature and daily sinne. Secondly, they know when they see Gods iudgements,1 that it was the word of ⟨p. 21⟩the Lord. Thirdly, they tremble at Gods word,2 and feare his displeasure, while it yet hangs in the threatning. Fourthly, they are sensible of that speciall goodnesse of Gods mercy;3 when a man is poore and needie, he can say with Dauid, mercie is good.