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An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is…An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is…
An exposition upon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not only the text is methodically analysed, and the sense of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and modern is explained: but also, by doctrine and use, the intent of the holy Ghost is in every place more fully unfolded and urged. ... Being, the substance of near seven years week-days sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the city of Chester.An exposition vpon the Epistle to the Colossians Wherein, not onely the text is methodically analysed, and the sence of the words, by the help of writers, both ancient and moderne is explayned: but also, by doctrine and vse, the intent of the holy Ghost is in euery place more fully vnfolded and vrged. ... Being, the substance of neare seuen yeeres weeke-dayes sermons, of N. Byfield, late one of the preachers for the citie of Chester.
London: printed by Edward for Nathaniel Butter, 1617
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.
1The signs of Gods anger to a particular man are such as these: First, if a man have not the marks of a child of God upon him: for whom God loves and is not angry with, they are marked with peculiar graces as indelibly as they were marked in Ezekiel with the letter Taud. Secondly, if he find himself directly under the threatenings of Gods word. Thirdly, it there be no effectual working of the spirit of grace in the use of the means, it is a plain sign of Gods anger, when a man hears the word powerfully preached, and reads, and prays, without all affection or life, and is so constantly. For if the Lord were pleased, he would show himself in the use of the means ⟨p. 45⟩of communion with him. Fourthly, a man may gather something by his crosses: for if he find a sting in them, that God fights against him in them, so as they pierce, and vex, and disquiet his soul with perplexity, but especially if he find his heart also closed with hardness, so as he do not call when the Lord bindeth him, this is in all likelihood not only a sign of wrath, but that the wrath increasethe, this is the rod of indignation. Fifthly, if a man live in some sins, they are manifest signs of wrath, as persecutionf, whoredomg, hatred of the brethrenh, with-holding the truth in unrighteousnessi, covetousness and uncleannessk, and generally all sins contained in any of the catalogues, against which the Lord denounceth his judgements in several Scriptures, Lastly, sometimes Gods anger is felt in the terrors and pain of the conscience, the Lord making some men to feel the edge of his axe, and fighting against them with his terrors. Now wheresoever these are felt by a soul that hath not been truly humbled for sin, they are assured pledges and beginnings of Gods wrath from heaven.