A09466:233
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.
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.
8 Then his eyes are opened, to see the causes, why Christ so withdraws himself, to be his gown security and negligence in seeking to Christ, his slackness in spiritual exercises, as in prayer and thanks-giving, ⟨p. 94⟩the deceitfulness and malice of false teachers.
8 Then his eyes are opened, to see the causes, why Christ so withdrawes himselfe, to be his gowne securitie and negligence in seeking to Christ, his slacknes in spirituall exercises, as in prayer and thankes-giuing, ⟨p. 94⟩the deceiptfulnesse and malice of false teachers.
- g10. 11. 12. 13. 14, 15.