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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.
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The reprobate may have a feeling of his ⟨p. 5⟩sins, & so acknowledge them, & the punishment due unto them: kas Saul did; who said, I have sinned: come again my son David: for I will do thee no harm, because my soul was precious in thy eyes this day: Behold, I have done foolishly, and have erred exceedingly. Thus did Cain, lwhen he said, my punishment is greater then I can bear. mGalerius Maximinus, a vile persecutor of Christians, had his bowels rotting within him: so that an infinite number of worms continually crawled forth of his body, and such a poisoning stink came from him, that no man could abide him: being thus plagued with the hand of God, he began to perceive his wickedness in persecuting Christians, and he confessed his sins to the true God: and assembling the chief about him, he commanded that all within his Dominions should cease to trouble Christians, and in all hast he made a law for the peace and liberty, and the public meetings of Christians.
The reprobate may haue a feeling of his ⟨p. 5⟩sins, & so acknowledge them, & the punishment due vnto them: kas Saul did; who said, I haue sinned: come againe my sonne Dauid: for I will doe thee no harme, because my soule was pretiou• in thy eies this day: Behold, I haue done foolishly, and haue erred exceedingly. Thus did Cain,