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The beginning of the doctrine of Christ. Or A catalogue of sins showing how…The beginning of the doctrine of Christ. Or A catalogue of sinnes shewing how…
The beginning of the doctrine of Christ. Or A catalogue of sins showing how a Christian may find out the evils, he must take notice of in his repentance. With rules, that show a course, how any Christian may be delivered from the guilt and power of all his sins. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word, at Isleworth in Middlesex.The beginning of the doctrine of Christ. Or A catalogue of sinnes shewing how a Christian may finde out the euils, hee must take notice of in his repentance. With rules, that shew a course, how any Christian may be deliuered from the guilt and power of all his sinnes. By N. Bifield preacher of Gods Word, at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed for R. Rounthwaite, 1619
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.
3. The third sin, is the1 defect of those graces, by which we should cleave unto God, and that also when we want that life of them should be in us; such are the defects of the warmth of the knowledge, ⟨p. 71⟩love, and fear of God, & of our joying and trusting in God, Psal. 36. 1. Zep. 3. 2 Prou. 30. 1. 2. Rom. 7. These defects are the worse, by reason of our impotency, and extreme indisposition to seek to mend those things. And therefore it is an aggravation of any of these defects, that men do not stir up themselves to take hold of GOD, Isaiah 64. 7:
3. The third sin, is the1 defect of those graces, by which wee should cleaue vnto God, and that also when wee want that life of them should be in vs; such are the defects of the warmth of the knowledge, ⟨p. 71⟩