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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.
I
A Reprobate hath in his mind a certain aknowledge of God, of common equity among men, of the difference of good from bad: and this is partly from nature, partly from the contemplation of Gods creatures, in which the wisdom, the power, the love, the mercy, the majesty of God is perceived.
A Reprobate hath in his mind a certain aknowledg of God, of common equitie among men, of the difference of good from bad: and this is partly from nature, partly from the contemplation of Gods creatures, in which the wisedom, the power, the loue, the mercie, the maiestie of God is perceiued.
II
This knowledge is only general and imperfect, much like the ruins of a Princes palace: it is not sufficient to direct him in doing of a good work. For example, the reprobate