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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.
The one, that thou ⟨p. 34⟩beseech God by prayer, to show thee the sins are most displeasing unto him. The other is, that thou take heed thou leave not out any special known sins, because else, those sins so spared, may buffet thee a long time after thou hast finished this course; and besides, they may get head and prevail against thee in practice, if by this course they be not brought under.
The one, that thou ⟨p. 34⟩beseech God by praier, to shew thee the sins are most displeasing vnto him. The other is, that thou take heed thou leaue not out anie speciall knowne sinnes, because else, those sinnes so spared, may buffet thee a long time after thou hast finished this course; and besides, they may get head and preuaile against thee in practice, if by this course they be not brought vnder.
Now that thou oughtest1 thus seriously to examine and call to mind thy sins, and that this is one of the things God requireth of thee to be distinctly done, ⟨p. 35⟩these places of Scripture do evidently prove, and withal show, that GOD doth take even this beginning of thy Repentance well, Lamen. 3. 40. Psal. 4. 4. Ezech. 16. 43. 61. & 20. 43. & 36. 31. Jerem. 8. 6.