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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.
Timoth. It is dangerous to read the scriptures, you that have no learning may easily fall into errors and heresies.
Timoth. It is dangerous to read the scriptures, you that haue no learning may easilie fall into errors and heresies.
Euseb. As he which knoweth his letters perfectly, and can spell, cannot but read if he be diligent: and as he which hath clear eyes without impediment or let, and walketh thereto in the light, & open day, cannot but see, if he attend and take heed: even so I having the profession of my Baptism only written in my heart, and feeling it sealed up in my conscience by the holy Ghost cannot but understand the Scripture, because I exercise my self therein, & compare one place with another and mark the manner of speech, and ask here and there the meaning of a sentence of them that be better exercised then I. for I feel in my hart and have a sensible experience of that inwardly, which the spirit of God hath delivered in the Scriptures. So that I find mine own feeling as a good commentary unto me.
Euseb. As he which knoweth his letters perfectlie, and can spell, cannot but read if he be diligent: and as hee which hath cleare eies without impediment or let, and walketh thereto in the light, & open daie, cannot but see, if he attend and take hede: euen so I hauing the profession of my Baptisme onelie written in my heart, and feeling it sealed vp in my conscience by the holie Ghost cannot but vnderstād the Scripture, because I exercise my selfe therein, & compare one place with another and marke the manner of speech, and aske here and there the meaning of a sentence of them that be better exercised then I. for I feele in my hart and haue a sensible experience of that inwardlie, which the spirite of God hath deliuered in the Scriptures. So that I find mine own feeling as a good cōmentarie vnto me.