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…

Euseb. I being one man in substance and two men in quality, flesh and spirit, which in me so fight perpetually the one against the other, that I must go either backward or forward, and cannot stand long in one state. If the spirit overcome in tentations, then is she stronger and the flesh weaker. But if the flesh get a custom, then is the spirit none otherwise oppressed of the flesh then as though she had a mountain on her back, and as we sometime in our dreams think we bear heavier then a millstone on our breasts: or when we dream now and then that we would run away for fear of some thing, our legs seem heavier then lead: Even so is the spirit oppressed and overladen of the flesh through custom, that she struggleth and striveth to get up and to break loose in vain, until the God of mercy which heareth my groan through Jesus Christ come and lose her with his power, and put something on the back of the flesh to keep her down to minish her strength and to mortify her. So then no sinner I am if you regard the spirit, the profession of my heart toward the law of God, my repentance and sorrow that I have both because I have sinned and am ⟨p. 151⟩yet full of sin, & look unto the promises of mercy in our Saviour Christ, and unto my faith. A sinner am I if you look to the frailty of my flesh which is a remnant of the old Adam, and as it were the state of the wild olive tree, ever and anon when occasion is given, shooting forth his branches, leaves, bud, blossom, and fruit also: which also is as the weakness of one that is newly recovered out of a great disease, by the reason whereof all my deeds are imperfect, and when occasions be great I fall into horrible deeds, and the fruit of the sin which remaineth in my members breaketh out. Notwithstanding the spirit leaveth me not but rebuketh me and bringeth me home again unto my profession, so that I never cast of the yoke of God from of my neck, neither yield up my self unto sin to serve it, but fight a fresh, and begin a new battle. And I had rather you should understand this forth of the Scriptures, by the example of Jonah and the Apostles. Jonah was the friend of God, and a chosen servant of GOD, to testify his will unto the world.

Euseb. I being one man in substance and two men in qualitie, flesh and spirite, which in me so fight perpetuallie the one against the other, that I must goe either backward or forwarde, and cannot stand long in one state. If the spirite ouercome in tentations, then is shee stronger and the flesh weaker. But if the flesh get a custome, then is the spirit none otherwise oppressed of the flesh then as though she had a mountaine on hir backe, and as we sometime in our dreames thinke we beare heauier then a milstone on our breasts: or when we dreame nowe and then that wee would runne awaie for feare of some thing, our legges seeme heauier then leade: Euen so is the spirite oppressed and ouerladen of the flesh through custome, that shee strugleth and striueth to gette vp and to breake loose in vaine, vntill the God of mercie which heareth my grone through Iesus Christ come and lose hir with his power, and put something on the backe of the flesh to keepe hir downe to minish hir strength and to mortifie hir. So then no sinner I am if you regard the spirit, the profession of my heart toward the lawe of God, my repentance and sorrowe that I haue both because I haue sinned and am