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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
The Assertion. › Argument 2 › The proof.The Assertion. › Argument 2 › The proofe.
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.
Again sthis religion teacheth, that a2 man must doubt of his salvation as long as he is in this life: behold a Rack or Gibbet erected by the church of Rome, for the tormenting of tender consciences, for when a man doubteth of his salvation, he also doubteth of Gods love and mercy to him: & he which doubteth of Gods love, cannot love God again: for how can any man love him of whose good will he doubteth: and when a man hath not the love of God in him, he hath no grace in him, & therefore his conscience must needs be defiled, and void of true peace, yea, he must needs be a wicked man, and that tsaying of Solomon must needs agree to him: The wicked flieth when no man pursueth (by reason of the guiltiness of his conscience) but the godly is bold as a Lion.
Againe sthis religion teacheth, that a2 man must doubt of his saluation as long as he is in this life: behold a Racke or Gibbet erected by the church of Rome, for the tormenting of tender consciences, for when a man doubteth of his saluatiō, he also doubteth of Gods loue and mercie to him: & he which doubteth of Gods loue, cannot loue God again: for how can anie man loue him of whose good will he doubteth: and when a man hath not the loue of God in him, he hath no grace in him, & therefore his conscience must needes be defiled, and voide of true peace, yea, he must needes be a wicked man, and that tsaying of Salomon must needes agree to him: The wicked flieth whē no man pursueth (by reason of the guiltines of his conscience) but the godlie is bold as a Lion.
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