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 22, 2024.

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§. 4.

Pride and humilitie be two contraries: the one is both of GOD and man greatly disliked; the other is of God and man very much beloued.

And, as the one directeth the way to hell, so the other teacheth the way to heauen.

If thou arrogantly lift vp thy selfe vnto God, hee will flee further off from thee; but if thou humble thy selfe vnfainedly be∣fore

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him, he will then draw neere, & come downe vnto thee.

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