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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.
My first reason is this, the man that liveth in this world nor being a true Christian, is far more vile then the basest creature of all, even the Dog, or Toad: For first he is nothing else but a filthy dunghill of all abomination and uncleanness, the fstink whereof hath infected heaven and earth, and no perfumes could ever delay it in the nostrils of God, but only the suffering of Christ being ga sacrifice of a sweet smelling savour to God. We make it very dainty to come near a lazar man that is full of botches, blains & sores; but much more are those men to be abhorred, which have lien many years stark hdead in sins and trespasses: & therefore now do nothing else but rot & stink in them like ugly loathsome carrions.
My first reason is this, the man that liueth in this world nor beeing a true Christian, is farre more vile then the basest creature of all, euen the Dogge, or Toade: For first he is nothing els but a filthy dunghill of all abhomination and vncleannes, the fstinke whereof hath infected heauen and earth, and no perfumes coulde euer delaie it in the nostrils of God, but onely the suffering of Christ beeing ga sacrifice of a sweet smelling sauour to God. Wee make it very daintie to come nere a lazar man that is full of botches, blaines & sores; but much more are those men to bee abhorred, which haue lien many yeares starke hdead in sins and trespasses: & therfore now do nothing els but rot & stinke in thē like vgly lothsome carrions.