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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.
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.
It is natural to a man to serve God in certain ceremonies, without the power of godliness: & this service is prescribed by the1 religion of the Church of Rome, which standeth only in outward and corporal ceremonies, as the outward succession of Bishops, garments, vestures, gestures, colours, choice of meat, difference of days, times, and places, hearing, seeing, saying, touching, tasting, numbering of Beads, gilding and worshipping of Images, building Monasteries, rising at midnight, silence in Cloisters, abstaining fr• flesh and whitmeat. Fasting in Lent, keeping Imberdaies, hearing Mass and divine service, seeing and adoring the body in form of bread, receiving holy water, and holy bread, creeping to the Cross, carrying Palms, taking Ashes, bearing Candles, Pilgrimage going, censing, kneeling, knocking, al•ers, superaltars, candlesticks, pardons: In orders Crossing, anointing, shaving, for swearing ma••i•ge; in Baptism, salting, crossing, spatling, ex•••i••ng, washing of hands: at Easter, confession ▪ […] dirge, satisfaction, and in receiving with […] •ew shaven, to imagine a body where they […] •nd though he were there present to be seen […] •he outward seeing and touching of him of […] without faith conduceth no more then it did […] ⟨p. 314⟩Jews. At Rogation days to carry banners, to follow the Cross, to walk about the fields; after Pentecost to go about with Corpus Christi plaie. At Hallowmas to watch in the Church, to say a dirge or commendation, and to ring for all souls, to pa•• tithes truly, to give to the high Altar. And if a man will be a Priest to sa•e Mass and Matins, to serve the Saint of that day, and to lif• well over the head. In sickness to be aneled, to take his Rites, after his death, t have Funeral, and Obits said for him, an to be rung for at his Funeral Months mind and Year mind: This is the sum o the Catholic Religion, standing in bodily Actions, not in any motion or work o the holy GHOST working in th heart.