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A treatise tending unto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of…A treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of…
A treatise tending unto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation or in the estate of grace and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he may discern it, and persevere in the same to the end. The points that are handled are set down in the page following.A treatise tending vnto a declaration whether a man be in the estate of damnation or in the estate of grace and if he be in the first, how he may in time come out of it: if in the second, how he maie discerne it, and perseuere in the same to the end. The points that are handled are set downe in the page following.
London: printed by R. Robinson for T. Gubbin, 1590
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.
Here first it is to be considered that the very nature of faith standeth in a certain power of apprehending & applying Christ.
Here first it is to bee considered that the verie nature of faith standeth in a certaine power of apprehending & applying Christ.
This is declared by Paul when he saith iye are buried with him through Baptism, by whom ye are also risen again with him by the faith of the power of God, who raised him from the dead. Where it appeareth that faith is made a means to communicate Christ himself, his death and burial, and so all other benefits to the believer. Again to believe in Christ and to kreceive or to lay hold on Christ are put one for an other by S. John: which declareth that there is a special applying of Christ. even as we see, when a man hath any thing given him, he reacheth out his hand, and pulleth it to himself and so makes it his own. Moreover faith is called