A09466:413
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.
Secondly they hold that the people is to be barred from the reading of the scriptures, unless it be in an unknown tongue, and so they maintain ignorance and the profaning of Gods name. For the free preaching of the word, and therefore also the hearing, learning, reading, searching of it, is the glorifying of the word, and so the glorifying1 of Gods name.
Secondly they holde that the people is to be barred from the reading of the scriptures, vnlesse it be in an vnknowne tongue, and so they mainteine ignorance and the profaning of Gods name. For the free preching of the worde, and therefore also the hearing, learning, reading, searching of it, is the glorifiyng of the word, and so the glorifying1 of Gods name.
The fourth commandment is repealed in that they require that their feast days should be kept as solemnly as the Lords sabaoth1 day. For they must be kept in all honour and comeliness: and men must rest from all their labours, from morning to evening, as on the Sabaoth: whereas contrariwise, the Lord hath given permission to his servants to labour the six days, sobeit, on the seventh they will rest from the works of their callings, and do the works of the spirit.
The fourth commaundement is repealed in that they require that their feast daies should be kept as solemnlie as the Lords sabaoth1 day. For they must be kept in all honour and comlines: and men must rest from all their laboures, from morning to euening, as on the Sabaoth: whereas contrariwise, the Lord hath giuen permission to his seruants to labour the sixe daies, sobeit, on the seauenth they wil rest from the works of their callings, and do the workes of the spirit.