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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.
TO THE MUCH Honoured Ladies, the Lady ANNE GLEERE, and the Lady ANNE FINCH, and the Lady JONE HERICK, N. Bifield wisheth all increase of the true grace of Christ, and the blessed fruition of the glory of God in Heaven.
TO THE MVCH Honoured Ladies, the Lady ANNE GLEERE, and the Ladie ANNE FINCH, and the Ladie IONE HERICK, N. Bifield wisheth all increase of the true grace of Christ, and the blessed fruition of the glory of God in Heauen.
Worthy Ladies,
Lamentable are the ruins, into which the natures of men ⟨image 3⟩are generally fallen by their sins; which appears especially by the ways men take in the business of their soul: The most men are clean out of the way to heaven, and walk in by-ways of their own, which are called in Scripture, the ways of the wicked; the ways of their own hearts; Perverse ways; Dark and slippery ways; The way of iniquity: All meeting in that broad way that leadeth to destruction, being wholly ignorant of the way of life and peace; yea, the most of them speak evil of the good way ⟨image 3⟩of God, and persecute it. Some there are, that are so far enlightened, as not to like the common roadway of the multitude; and after some inquiry have found them out ways that seem good in their own eyes; and they are wonderfully well pleased with their course, but the issues of these ways are death too, as well as the former: and the more is this danger increased upon men, because the way of life is but one, and it is a narrow way, and hard to find, and may be sought by many, and yet not found: Yet this