A09466:171
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.
XXXIII
This sanctification is wrought in all Christians after this manner. After that they are1 joined to Christ, and made mystically bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, Christ worketh in them effectually by his holy spirit, and his works are principally three. First, dhe causeth his own death to work effectually the death of all sin, and to kill the power of the flesh. For it is as a Corrosive, ⟨p. 67⟩which being applied to the part affected, eateth out the venom and corruption: and so the death of Christ by faith applied, fretteth out and consumeth the concupiscence & the corruption of the whole man. *Secondly, the burial of Christ is the burial of sin, as it were in a grave. eThirdly, his Resurrection sendeth a quickening power into them, & to make them rise out of their sin, in which they were dead and buried, to work righteousness, & to live in holiness of life. Lazarus body lay four days, and stank in the grave, yet Christ raised it and gave him life again, and made him do the same works that living men do: so also Christ dealeth with the souls of the faithful: they rot and stink in their sins, and would perish in them, if they were left alone: but Christ putteth a heavenly life into them, & maketh them active and lively to do the will of God in the works of Christianity, and in the works of their callings. And this sanctification is throughout the whole man: in the spirit, soul, and mind.