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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.
The proof of the Argument.
The proofe of the Argument.
THE proposition is plain, and every Papist will grant it: all the controversy is of the assumption: wherefore I prove […] thus:
THE proposition is plaine, and euerie Papist will graunt it: all the controuersie is of the assumption: wherefore I prooue 〈…〉 thus:
The Sacrament of Penance (as they all it) is one of the chief things in the •ligion of the Church of Rome: for it is ⟨p. 196⟩such a sacrament, athat by the power & efficacy of it, the blood of Christ is delivered to us, to wash away our sins: and they say bit hath such virtue that the kingdom of heaven is promised to it in the scriptures, and that it is not regeneration, but an healing of a man regeneration, but an healing of a man regenerate, & that it pardoneth sin, as Baptism. And as touching Contrition, Papists write, cit hath power to do away sin, and to obtain pardon at Gods hand: the same they speak o• Confession, which they say delivereth from death, openeth Paradise, and giveth hop• of salvation: and hereby it may appear that Penance is one of the greatest point of the popish religion.