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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 3 › The proof.The Assertion. › Argument 3 › The proofe.
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I answer, that the wisdom of the flesh is enmity to Gods wisdom, Rom. 8. 7. and all men by nature are nothing but flesh, for naturally they are the children of wrath. 2. The worshipping of God in Images, is a great matter in the Church of Rome: but this manner of worshipping is nothing but a work of the flesh, which thus I prove: bIdolatry is natural, and a work of the flesh, but to worship God in Images, is Idolatry. The children of Israel when they erected the golden Calf, they did commit Idolatry, ⟨p. 310⟩and yet they did not worship the Calf it self, but God in the Calf. For when th• Calf was made, they cproclaimed an Holiday, not to the Calf, but to the Lord. And Baal, that detestable Idol, was nothing▪ but the Image of God, as appeareth in Hosea the Prophet. At that day, saith th• 3the Lord thou shalt call me no mo• Baal.
I answere, that the wisedome of the flesh is enmitie to Gods wisedome, Rom. 8. 7. and all men by nature are nothing but flesh, for naturallie they are the children of wrath. 2. The worshipping of God in Images, is a great matter in the Church of Rome: but this maner of worshipping is nothing but a worke of the flesh, which thus I proue: bIdolatrie is natural, and a worke of the flesh, but to worship God in Images, is Idolatrie. The children of Israell when they erected the golden Calfe, they did commit Idolatrie, ⟨p. 310⟩and yet they did not worship the Calfe it selfe, but God in the Calfe. For when th Calfe was made, they