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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.
2. Cain and Judas confessed sin, but it was not all sorts of sins, but only the capital ⟨p. 53⟩crimes known by them, by which they had shamed and undone themselves.
2. Caine and Iudas confessed sinne, but it was not all sorts of sinnes, but onely the capitall ⟨p. 53⟩crimes known by them, by which they had shamed and vndone themselues.
3. The sorrows of wicked men were more for the punishment, then for the sin; No wicked man can be sorry for sin, as it is sin; nor did they sorrow for all sorts of sins, but for the sins before described.
3. The sorrowes of wicked men were more for the punishment, then for the sinne; No wicked man can bee sorry for sinne, as it is sinne; nor did they sorrow for all sorts of sinnes, but for the sinnes before described.
4. Their confession and sorrows were not joined with an unfeigned desire to forsake sin; whereas this is an infallible sign of true repentance, when a man can as heartily ⟨p. 54⟩desire that he might never commit sin, as heartily (I say) desire it, as he would that God should never impute it. When a man can say before the Lord, that there is no sin, but he doth as unfeignedly desire God to give him strength to leave it and forsake it, as he doth desire that God should forgive him, and not plague him for it: I say this is such a sign, as was never found in a wicked man in any age of the world.