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A grain of mustard-seed or, the least measure of grace that is or can…A graine of musterd-seede or, the least measure of grace that is or can…
A grain of mustard-seed or, the least measure of grace that is or can be effectual to salvation. Corrected and amended by W. Perkins.A graine of musterd-seede or, the least measure of grace that is or can be effectuall to saluation. Corrected and amended by W. Perkins.
London: printed by John Legate, 1611London: printed by Iohn Legate, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
To the right honourable and virtuous Lady the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland, Grace and Peace.
To the right honourable and vertuous Lady the Ladie Margaret, Countesse of Cumberland, Grace and Peace.
Right Honourable, the kingdom of heaven, of which the scripture speaketh so oft, is properly a certain state or condition, whereby we stand in the favour and love of God, in and by Christ. And this kingdom is compared to a Grain of Mustard-seed, to teach us that a man is even at that instant already entered into the kingdom of heaven, when the Lord that good husbandman hath cast but some little portion of faith or repentance into the ground of the heart; yea, though it be but ⟨image 3⟩as one grain of mustard-seed. Of this little grain I have penned this Treatise, in quantity answerable thereto: and I now present the same to your Ladyship, not to supply your want, (for I hope you are stored with many grains of this kind) but to perform some duty on my part. Hoping therefore that your Ladyship will read and accept the same, I take my leave, commending you to the blessing and protection of the Almighty.
RIght Honourable, the kingdome of heauen, of which the scripture speaketh so oft, is properly a certaine state or condition, whereby wee stand in the fauour and loue of God, in and by Christ. And this kingdome is compared to a Graine of Musterd-seede, to teach vs that a man is euen at that instant alreadie entred into the kingdome of heauen, when the Lord that good husbandman hath cast but some little portion of faith or repentance into the ground of the heart; yea, though it be but ⟨image 3⟩as one graine of musterd-seede. Of this little graine I haue penned this Treatise, in quantitie answerable thereto: and I now present the same to your Ladishippe, not to supplie your want, (for I hope you are stored with many graines of this kinde) but to performe some dutie on my part. Hoping therefore that your Ladiship will read and accept the same, I take my leaue, commending you to the blessing and protection of the Almightie.