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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.
Timoth. The favour and mercy of God, that may clean forsake you.
Timoth. The fauour and mercie of God, that may cleane forsake you.
Euseb. Nay that I will never grant: for I am certainly persuaded of the favour & mercy of God even to the salvation of my soul.
Euseb. Nay that I will neuer graunt: for I am certainly perswaded of the fauour & mercie of God euen to the saluation of my soule.
Timoth. Oh show me that, that is the thing I earnestly desire, to be assured of Gods special goodness, even by your feeling.
Timoth. Oh shewe mee that, that is the thing I earnestly desire, to bee assured of Gods speciall goodnes, euen by your feeling.
Euseb. According as God hath given me to feel the same so will I show it you. And first of all the dealing of God towards me is a good argument to me. In the first commandment, God hath commanded me to take him to be my God, and in the Lords prayer he teacheth me to call him father: he hath created the world generally and every creature particularly for man & so for me, to serve for my commodity, necessity, and admonition. Also he hath made me after his own image, having a reasonable soul, body, shape, where he might have made me a Toad, a Serpent, a Swine, deformed, frantic. Moreover, he hath wonderfully preserved me in my infancy, childhood, youth, middle age hitherto from manifold dangers & perils: all which do confirm in me a persuasion of Gods fatherly love: & that I should not doubt hereof: where I might have been borne of Turks, lo it was the will of God that I should be borne of Christian Parents, & be brought into Gods Church by Baptism, which is the Sacrament of adoption, & requireth faith, as well of the remission of my sins as of sanctification and holiness to be wrought of God in me by his grace and holy spirit: where I might have