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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 fifth reason. Eternal life is a thing desired of all men: yet none shall be made partakers of it, but the true Christian, and the glorious estate of this life would move any man to be a Christian. First of all, they which have eternal life are freed from all pains, sicknesses, infirmities, hunger, thirst, cold, weariness; from all sin, as anger, forgetfulness, ignorance; from hell, death, damnation, Satan, & from every thing that causeth misery: according to that of saint John, And uGod will wipe away all tears from their eyes: & there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, neither crying, neither shall there be any more pain▪ ⟨p. 114⟩for the first things are passed. Secondly the faithful shall be in the presence of Gods Majesty in heaven there to behold his face, that is, his glory, as our Saviour Christ saith, Father xI will that they which thou hast given me, be with me even where I am, that they may behold my glory which thou hast given me. And David saith. In ythy presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore. Thirdly, they zshall have such an excellent communion with God, that he shall be unto them all in all. For in the end of the world, when the whole number of the elect is accomplished Christ shall present them to his father, and as he is mediator he shall cease to be a King, a Priest, a Prophet, as Paul saith athen shall be the end, when he hath delivered up the kingdom to God: even the Father, when he hath put down all rule, al• authority and power. Again, among the elect there shall not be king and subject, father, mother, child, master, servant, noble, ignoble, rich, poor, living, dead. Some will say, what then shall there be? I answer, one glorious and everlasting God, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost, shall be in all the elect, all that heart can wish and desire. Men shall not be in darkness, neither shall they need the light of the Sun, Moon,