A09466:31
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.
VII
fBeside this natural knowledge, the reprobate may be made partaker of the preaching of the word, and be illuminated by the holy Ghost, and so may come to the knowledge of the revealed will of God in his word.
fBeside this naturall knowledge, the reprobate may be made partaker of the preaching of the word, and be illuminated by the holy Ghost, and so may come to the knowledge of the reuealed will of God in his word.
- fHeb. 6. 4. 2. Pet. 2. 23.
VIII
Thus, when they hear the preaching of the word, God proffereth salvation to them and calleth them: gyet this calling is not so effectual in them as it is in the elect children of God. For the reprobate, when he is called, he liketh himself in his own blindness, and therefore neither will he; and if he would, yet could he not answer, and be obedient to the calling of God. The elect being called, with speed he answereth, and cometh to the Lord, and his hart being ready, giveth a strong and a loud echo to the voice of the Lord. This echo we see in Davids heart: