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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
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3. The third thing every1 Christian ought to seek satisfaction in, is this, How a man, that hath attained unto the assurance of salvation, when he dyes, may comfort and establish his hart against all the miseries and distresses, which may, and will befall him in this life before his death; and to this end I have gathered out of the ⟨p. 8⟩whole Scriptures those admirable consolations, which may be abundantly sufficient to uphold him with much joy in the worst estate can befall him; and this is done in the Treatise which I call the Promises.
3. The third thing euery1 Christian ought to seek satisfaction in, is this, How a man, that hath attain'd vnto the assurance of saluation, when hee dyes, may comfort and establish his hart against all the miseries and distresses, which may, and will befall him in this life before his death; and to this end I haue gathered out of the ⟨p. 8⟩whole Scriptures those admirable consolations, which may be aboundantly sufficient to vphold him with much ioy in the worst estate can befall him; and this is done in the Treatise which I call the Promises.
- 1The Contents of the third book.The Contents of the third booke.
4. The fourth question a1 careful Christian, that hath thus found out the gain of godliness, would ask, is this, What he should do in the whole course of his life to glorify God, who hath thus loved him, and given his Son to dye for him, and purchased such a glorious Inheritance for him; and for answer hereunto, I