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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. That thou mayest attain unto this redemption by Christ, if thou wilt practise those things which are required of thee: and this thou mayest be assured of, both because Christ is said to take away the sins of the world, and because God offers this reconciliation in the Gospel, to every creature, and exempts none; and because the Apostle saith, If any man sin, he may have an Advocate ⟨p. 27⟩with the Father, even Jesus Christ the righteous; and besides, thou feelest the Spirit of God knocking at the door of thy heart, and would come in, John 1. Mark 16. 1. John 2.
3. That thou maist attaine vnto this redemption by Christ, if thou wilt practise those things which are required of thee: and this thou maist bee assured of, both because Christ is said to take away the sinnes of the world, and because God offers this reconciliation in the Gospel, to euery creature, and exempts none; and because the Apostle saith, If any man sinne, he may haue an Aduocate ⟨p. 27⟩with the Father, euen Iesus Christ the rightèous; and besides, thou feelest the Spirit of God knocking at the doore of thy heart, and would come in, Iohn 1. Marke 16. 1. Iohn 2.
When thou hast thus prepared thy self by these1 three resolutions, then if thou do these 4. things following, thou mayest be sure to be clearly rid of all danger that can any way befall thee for thy sins past, though they were never so many, or great.