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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.
And thus we dispute, God sent his son in our nature, and made him feel our infirmities that move us to sin and named his name Jesus, that is a Saviour, because he should save his people from their sins, and after his death he sent his Apostles to preach these glad-tidings, to thrust them in at the ears of us, and set up a sacrament of them to testify them & to seal them, and to thrust them in, not at the ears only by rehearsing the promises of the testament over it: neither at our eyes only in beholding it, but beat them in through our feeling, tasting & smelling also, and to be repeated daily & to be ministered to us. He would not (think we) make half so much a do with us if he loved us not, & would not have ⟨p. 169⟩his Sacrament to be a witness and testimony between him & us, to confirm the faith of his promises that we should not doubt in them, when we look on the seals of his obligations wherewith he hath bound himself: & this to keep the promises & covenants better in mind, and to make them the more deeply to sink into our hearts, and be more earnestly regarded.
And thus we dispute, God sent his sonne in our nature, and made him feele our infirmities that moue vs to sinne and named his name Iesus, that is a Sauior, because he should saue his people frō their sinnes, and after his death he sent his Apostles to preach these glad-tydings, to thrust them in at the eares of vs, and set vp a sacrament of them to testifie them & to seale them, and to thrust them in, not at the eares onely by rehearsing the promises of the testament ouer it: neither at our eies onely in beholding it, but beat them in through our feeling, tasting & smelling also, and to bee repeated dailie & to be ministred to vs. He wold not (think we) make half so much a do with vs if he loued vs not, & wold not haue ⟨p. 169⟩his Sacrament to bee a witnes and testimonie between him & vs, to confirm the faith of his promisses that wee should not doubt in them, when we looke on the seales of his obligations wherewith he hath bound himselfe: & this to keepe the promisses & couenants better in mind, and to make them the more deepely to sinke into our hearts, and be more earnestlie regarded.