A09466:149
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 elect being thus joined unto Christ, receive three wonderful benefits from him, Justification, Adoption, Sanctification. Justification is, when the elect being in themselves rebellious sinners, and therefore firebrands of hell fire, and Gods own enemies, fyet by Christ they are accepted of the Lord as perfectly pure and righteous before him.
The elect being thus ioyned vnto Christ, receiue three wonderfull benefites from him, Iustification, Adoption, Sanctification. Iustification is, when the elect being in themselues rebellious sinners, and therefore firebrandes of hell fire, and Gods owne enemies, fyet by Christ they are accepted of the Lord as perfectlie pure and righteous before him.