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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.
Hitherto in General. The first thing then to be done by that Christian that would settle himself in a sound course, to lay as it were, the foundation of his salvation, is to practise those rules that may deliver him from the horrible ⟨p. 23⟩danger and distress he is in, in respect of all the power of all the sins he hath hitherto committed.
HItherto in Generall. The first thing then to be done by that Christian that would settle himselfe in a sound course, to lay as it were, the foundation of his saluation, is to practise those rules that may deliuer him from the horrible ⟨p. 23⟩danger and distresse he is in, in respect of all the power of al the sins he hath hitherto committed.
If he consider of the1 dreadful curses which he is liable unto in respect of all his sins, he ought not to think it much to undergo the hardest task can be enjoined, to make himself capable of the grace of God, and pardon for so many offences. And therefore with so much the more willingness, and unchangeableness of religion should he with much desire set upon these rules now to be given, seeing they are ⟨p. 24⟩but few in number, and such as he may perform by the grace of God, with much ease and comfort, and the more may he encourage his own heart, because when he hath done, he may clearly see he hath done distinctly that which God required of him, and that, with which he is satisfied through Christ. But before he set upon the practice of these rules, he must in judgement be throughly resolved of three things.2
If hee consider of the1