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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 4 › The proof.The Assertion. › Argument 4 › 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.
1 The Church of Rome saith, that men •re saved by grace: and again it saith, that men are saved by works. A flat contradiction. For Paul saith, if election be of grace, it1 •s no more of works: or else were grace no more grace, but if it be of works, it is no more grace: for else were work no more work. Answer is made. That in this place Paul 2speaketh of works of nature, which indeed •re contrary to grace: but not of works of regeneration which are not contrary to grace. This answer is false: for Paul in a like •lace unto this opposeth grace & works of ⟨p. 226⟩regeneration. Ye are saved by grace (saith he) through faith, and that not of your selves, for it is the gift of God: not of works,3 least any should boast himself. For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works, that we should walk in them. Now let the Church of Rome speak what are the works of which a man may• most of all boast? And what are the work• for the doing of which we must be fashioned a new in Christ Jesus? Assuredly the• must be the works of regeneration, dipped & died in the blood of Christ (as they speak▪ wherefore it is evident, that Pauls meaning is to conclude, that if we be saved by grace we cannot be saved by works of regeneration ▪
1 The Church of Rome saith, that men •re saued by grace: and againe it saith, that men are saued by works. A flat contradicti•n. For Paule saith, if election be of grace, it1