B11881:42
The signs of the wicked man Together with directions that show how the several…The signes of the wicked man Together with directions that shew how the seuerall…
The signs of the wicked man Together with directions that show how the several gifts and graces of Gods spirit may be attained. Needful for such as want those graces, and for such as desire to increase in them. By N. Bifield, preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.The signes of the wicked man Together with directions that shew how the seuerall gifts and graces of Gods spirit may be attained. Needfull for such as want those graces, and for such as desire to increase in them. By N. Bifield, preacher of Gods Word at Isleworth in Middlesex.
London: printed by George Purslow for Ralph Rounthwaite, 1619London: printed by George Purslovv for Ralph Rounthvvaite, 1619
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THE trial of the estates of all sorts of Christians, may be performed by examining themselves by two sorts of signs; some are such ⟨p. 19⟩as describe the wicked man, and some such as describe the godly man; and of the trial of the godly man, I have entreated before. Wicked men in the Church are not all of a sort: for some are manifestly profane and careless of the Kingdom of God; and some are in outward show, such as profess the seeking of Gods Kingdom, but yet in deed and in heart are without God and without Christ, and such are all Hypocrites. Wicked men of the first sort, are discerned by such marks as these: and so ⟨p. 20⟩he is a wicked man,
THE tryall of the estates of all sorts of Christians, may bee performed by examining themselues by two sorts of signes; some are such ⟨p. 19⟩as describe the wicked man, and some such as describe the godly man; and of the tryall of the godly man, I haue intreated before. Wicked men in the Church are not all of a sort: for some are manifestly prophane and carelesse of the Kingdome of God; and some are in outward shew, such as professe the seeking of Gods Kingdome, but yet in deed and in heart are without God and without Christ, and such are all Hypoctites. Wicked men of the first sort, are discerned by such markes as these: and so ⟨p. 20⟩he is a wicked man,
1. That can spend whole1 days or weeks without seeking after God, or Christ, that accounts it no part of his care to look after God, or any secret acquaintance or communion with God in Jesus Christ, that lives, as the Apostle saith, without God, and without Christ, and therefore without hope in the world: that seldom or never thinks seriously of God,