The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.

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The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.
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Bentley, James.
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At London :: Printed by I.R. for Nicholas Ling ...,
1600.
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"The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08598.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 21, 2024.

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§. 4.

VVee finde in the eyghteene of Eze∣chiell, and the 23. verse, that the Almigh∣tie, by the mouth of the same Prophet, ex∣horting the Children of Israell to repen∣tance, first maketh this demaund of them; saying: * Haue I any desire that the wic∣ked

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should die? or shall hee not liue if hee returne from his wayes?

Then followeth in the 27. and 28. ver∣ses, sundry promises of Gods loue & mer∣cie, vnto him that truly repenteth, and for∣saketh his sinnes.

And, in the 31. & 32. verses of the same chapter, he thus concludeth all his former speech held with them to that purpose, say∣ing: Cast away from you all your trans∣gressions, whereby you haue transgressed: and make you a newe heart, and a nevve Spirite; for vvhy vvill yee die, ô house of Israell?

For, I desire not the death of him that dieth: cause therefore one another to re∣turne, and liue.

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