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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.
Joseph saw the Sun and the Moon, and seven stars worshipping him, nevertheless ere that came to pass, God laid him where he could see neither sun, nor moon neither any star of the sky, and that many years, and also undeserved, to nurture him, to make him humble & meek, & to teach him Gods ways, and to make him apt and meet for that room & honour: again he came to it, that he might be strong in the spirit to minister it well. God promised the children of Israel a land with rivers of milk & honey. ⟨p. 160⟩yet he brought them forth the space of forty years into a land where in rivers of milk and honey were, but where so much as a drop of water was not, to nurture and teach them as a father doth his son, and to do them good at the latter end, to seduce their cankered nature, to make them strong in the spirit to use his benefits aright. Lastly God promised David a kingdom, and immediately stirred up Saul against him to persecute him, and to hunt him as men do hairs with grey-hounds and to ferret him out of every hole, and that for the space of many years, to turn him, to make him to mortify his lusts, to make him feel his own diseases: in fine to make him a good man, and a good King.
Ioseph saw the Sun and the Moone, and seauen starres worshipping him, neuertheles ere that came to passe, God laid him where he could see neither sun, nor moone neither anie star of the skie, and that many yeres, and also vndeserued, to nurture him, to make him humble & meeke, & to teach him Gods waies, and to make him apte and meete for yt roome & honor: again he came to it, that he might be strong in the spirit to minister it well. God promised the children of Israel a land with riuers of milke & honie. ⟨p. 160⟩yet hee brought them foorth the space of fortie yeares into a lande where in riuers of milke and honie were, but where so much as a drop of water was not, to nurture and teach them as a father doth his sonne, and to doe them good at the latter ende, to seduce their cankred nature, to make them strong in the spirite to vse his benefites aright. Lastlie God promised Dauid a kingdome, and immediatelie stirred vp Saul against him to persecute him, and to hunt him as men doe hayres with gray-houndes and to ferret him out of euerie hole, and that for the space of manie yeares, to turne him, to make him to mortifie his lustes, to make him feel his own diseases: in fine to make him a good man, and a good King.