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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.
The first temptation is a fall into some great sin, as Noah into drunkenness, David into adultery and murder, Peter into the denial of Christ. The exercise of a Christian in this temptation is this:
The first temptation is a fall into some great sin, as Noah into drunkennes, Dauid into adulterie and murder, Peter into the deniall of Christ. The exercise of a Christian in this temptation is this:
1 At the first his heart is usually dulled •nd made secure with sin. 2 Yet after a while there ariseth in his ⟨p. 98⟩hart a godly sorrow: which is when he is grieved for the only cause, that by his sin he hath displeased God, who hath been to him so loving & merciful a father, whose favour he would be content to purchase, (so he might have it and obtain it, even with the damnation of his own soul. 3 nThen he begins to repent himself of his sins renewing a fresh his former repentance. 4 u This repentance he showeth by 7. signs
1 At the first his heart is vsually dulled •nd made secure with sinne. 2 Yet after a while there ariseth in his ⟨p. 98⟩hart a godlie sorrow: which is when hee is greued for the only cause, that by his sin he hath displeased God, who hath bene to him so louing & mercifull a father, whose fauor he would be content to purchasse, (so hee might haue it and obtaine it, euen with the damnation of his owne soule. 3 nThē he begins to repent himself of his sins renewing a fresh his former repentāce. 4 u This repentāce he sheweth by 7. signes