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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.
So by little and little God restored me to my first estate, but (me thinks) I have not that feeling which I had before, and have been worse ever since▪ God of his mercy amend me, and increase his graces in me.
So by little and little God restored mee to my first estate, but (mee thinkes) I haue not that feeling which I had before, and haue bene worse euer since▪ God of his mercie amende me, and increase his graces in me.
Timoth. Praised be God that we fell into this communication; for I had thought that ⟨p. 165⟩no man had ben in such a case but I, for I from my hart detest that babbling which in time past I have used and I have vowed with my self to use it no more, and God hath given me strength and will to pay my vows & to keep them half a year or twelvemonth together, and then falling into a company of the honester sort of good fellows, I take otherwhiles a cup of Nimis, for which afterwards I am so touched in my conscience and so grieved inwardly: that often I have no delight in my meat: and then I use prayer and reading and meditating of the scriptures, and do receive much comfort. But I pray you what think you, will not God condemn his children if they sin?
Timoth. Praised be God that we fel into this communicatiō; for I had thought that ⟨p. 165⟩no mā had ben in such a case but I, for I frō my hart detest that babbling which in time past I haue vsed and I haue vowed with my selfe to vse it no more, and God hath giuen mee strength and will to paie my vowes & to keepe them halfe a yere or tweluemonth together, and then falling into a companie of the honester sort of good fellows, I take otherwhiles a cuppe of Nimis, for which afterwards I am so touched in my conscience and so grieued inwardlie: that often I haue no delight in my meate: and then I vse praier and reading and meditating of the scriptures, and do receiue much comfort. But I praie you what thinke you, will not God condemne his children if they sinne?