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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.
XVII.
The least measure of faith that any Christian1 can have, is compared to the sgrain of mustard seed, the least of all seeds: and to flax tthat hath fire in it, but so weak that it can neither give heat, nor light, but only maketh a smoke, and is called by the name of a ulittle faith: and it may be thus described, when a man of an humble heart doth not yet feel the assurance of the forgiveness of his own sins, and yet he is persuaded they are pardonable, desiring that they might be pardoned. And therefore prayeth to God, ⟨p. 49⟩that he would pardon them, and give him strength to leave them.
The least measure of faith that any Christian1 can haue, is compared to the sgraine of mustard seede, the least of all seedes: and to flaxe tthat hath fire in it, but so weake that it can neither giue heate, nor light, but onely maketh a smoake, and is called by the name of a