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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 elect being thus assured of their adoption 1& justification, are endued with hope: aby which they look patiently for the accomplishing of all good things which God hath begun in them. And therefore they can undergo all Crosses and afflictions with a quiet and contented mind: because they know that the time will come when they shall have full redemption from all evils. This was bthe patience of Pauls hope, when he said, that nothing in the world could sever him from the love of God in Christ. And like to this was the patience of Polycarp, & of Ignatius, who when he was condemned and judged to be thrown to wild beasts, and now heard the Lyons roaring, he boldly & yet patiently said; I am the wheat of Christ, I shall be ground with the teeth of wild beasts, that I may be found good bread. Also the same was the patience of the blessed Martyr saint Laurence, who like a meek Lamb suffered himself to be tormented on a fiery gridiron: and when he had been pressed down with fire pikes for a great space, in the mighty spirit of God, spake unto the Emperor that ⟨p. 66⟩caused him thus to be tormented, on this wise
The elect beeing thus assured of their adoptiō 1& iustificatiō, are indued with hope: