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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 second thing that1 God requireth of thee distinctly to be done, is the expression of those sins thus gathered into the Catalogue, and for the performance ⟨p. 36⟩of this duty, set some time apart, and present thy self before the Lord: and if thy memory will not carry all the particulars2 of thy offences, take with thee the written indictment, and as Hezekiah did with his letter, spread thy Catalogue before the Lord, and then take unto thee words in the best manner thou canst, to judge thy self for those offences. Let the Lord know, that it is thy hearts desire to plead guilty to each of those sins, and in special, urge against thy self those sins, wherein thou hast more especially ⟨p. 37⟩offended. Be not over careful for words; the Lord requireth thee but to do it in the best words thou canst; only let thy words be the true voice of thy heart, and thou mayst be sure the Lord understandeth the meaning of thy heart. Let no objection drive thee off from the practice hereof, but do it so, as thy own Conscience may witness with thee, that thou hast done it in the best manner thou canst. Now that this is a duty necessarily required, these Scriptures plainly3 show, Hosh. 14. 3. 4. Prou. ⟨p. 38⟩28. 13. Levit. 16. 21. & 26. 40. 41. Job 33. 27. 28. Psalm. 32. 5.