A09466:232
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.
6 dIn this his spiritual sickness he first feels the power of Christ supporting him, that the spirit be not quenched; and he ehears Christ as it were whispering in his heart, as a man speaks to his friend when he is coming towards him a far off.
6 dIn this his spirituall sicknes hee first feeles the power of Christ supporting him, that the spirite bee not quenched; and hee eheares Christ as it were whispering in his heart, as a man speakes to his friende when hee is comming towardes him a farre off.
- dver. 6. 7.
- ever. 8.
7 fAfter this Christ comes nearer, but the Christian can no otherwise enjoy him, then a man enjoys the company of his friend, who is on the other side of a wall, looking at him through the grate or lattice.
7 fAfter this Christ comes neerer, but the Christian can no otherwise enioy him, then a man enioyes the companie of his friend, who is on the other side of a wall, looking at him through the grate or lattesse.
- fver. 9.