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The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made
The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the year 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellency of the work.The good old way, or, An excellent and profitable treatise of repentance made by John Bradford in the yeare 1553. Now published with two prefaces relating the life of the author, and the excellencey of the worke.
London: printed by Leon. Lichfield, 1652
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.
Tarry thou on this firm rock, and Isle warrant thee. Say with Paul, What can separate me from the love of God? can death, can poverty, can sickness, hunger, or any misery, persuade thee now that God loveth thee not? Nay, nothing can separate thee from the love, wherewith God hath loved thee in Christ Jesus; whom he loveth he loveth to the ⟨p. 66⟩end. So that now where abundance of sin hath been in thee, the more is the abundance of grace. But to what end? Certainly, that as sin hath reigned to death, as thou seest, to the killing of Gods Son; so now Grace must reign to life, to the honouring of Gods Son, who is now alive and cannot dye any more.
Tarry thou on this firme rock, and Ile warrant thee. Say with Paul, What can separate me from the love of God? can death, can poverty, can sicknesse, hunger, or any misery, perswade thee now that God loveth thee not? Nay, nothing can seperate thee from the love, wherewith God hath loved thee in Christ Jesus; whom he loveth he loveth to the ⟨p. 66⟩end. So that now where abundance of sin hath been in thee, the more is the abundance of grace. But to what end? Certainly, that as sinne hath reigned to death, as thou seest, to the killing of Gods Sonne; so now Grace must raigne to life, to the honouring of Gods Sonne, who is now alive and cannot dye any more.
So that they which by faith feel this cannot any more dye to God, but to sin, whereto they are dead and buried with Christ.
So that they which by faith feele this cannot any more dye to God, but to sinne, whereto they are dead and buried with Christ.