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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. › Thus of the causes.
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.
First, it is inquisitive, it is a hard thing to make sorrow silent, and he that is truly pricked in his heart,1 cannot with contentment smother his doubts, he will ask the way to Zion, and cannot rest till he have known what to do to be saved,2 those that find so little to ask, ⟨p. 35⟩and can be so silent in the presence of Gods servants, by whom they might be directed, may suspect their sorrows.
First, it is inquisitiue, it is a hard thing to make sorrow silent, and hee that is truelie pricked in his heart,1 cannot with contentment smother his doubts, hee will aske the way to Sion, and cannot rest till he haue knowne what to doe to be saued,2 those that finde so little to aske, ⟨p. 35⟩and can be so silent in the presence of Gods seruaunts, by whom they might bee directed, may suspect their sorrowes.
- 1Jor. 50. 4. 5Ior. 50. 4. 5
- 2Act. 2. 37.
Secondly, it must not rest in the beginnings, or probabilities, or hopes, or others good opinions, or the mending of many things: but a Christian that is truly humbled will repent still,1