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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.
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The greatest measure of faith is a full persuasion 1of the mercy of God. For it is the strength and ripeness of faith. Rom. 4. verse 20. 21. Abraham not weak in faith but being strengthened in the faith, was fully persuaded, that he who had promised was able to do it: This full assurance is when a man can say with Paul, I iam persuaded that neither life nor death, nor Angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our ⟨p. 53⟩Lord. And lest any should think: this saying is peculiar to Paul, the whole Church, in the canticles, useth the same in effect: saying, kLove is strong as death, jealousy is as cruel as the grave, the coals thereof are fiery coals, & a vehement flame. Much water cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man should give all the substance of his house for love, they would contemn it.
The greatest measure of faith is a full perswasion 1of the mercie of God. For it is the strength and ripenes of faith. Rom. 4. verse 20. 21. Abraham not weake in faith but beeing strengthned in the faith, was fullie perswaded, that he who had promised was able to doe it: This full assurance is when a man can saie with Paul, I