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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
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.
Christian. There is remedy enough to deliver me from condemnation. For God i• not only (as thou affirmest) a Lord and Judge, but also a saving, and a most merciful Father.
Christian. There is remedie inough to deliuer me from condemnation. For God i• not onelie (as thou affirmest) a Lord and Iudge, but also a sauing, and a most mercifull Father.
Satan. But thou fire brand of hell fire, and child of perdition, look for no mercy at Gods hands, because thou art a most grievous sinner: for, 1. Original sin runneth wholly over thee, as a loathsome botch or leprosy. 2. Thy mind knoweth not the things that be of God: 3. In the law of God thou art stark blind, saving that thou hast a few principles of it to make thee inexcusable. 4. The Gospel is foolishness and madness unto thee: thou makest no better account of it then of thine own dream. 5. Thy conscience is corrupt, because▪ it flattereth thee, and excuseth thy sin. 6. Thy memory keepeth and remembereth nothing, but that which is against Gods word; but things abominable and wicked, it keepeth long. 7. Thy will hath no inclination to that which is good, but only to sin and wickedness. 8. Thy affections are set only on wickedness: they are as mighty Giants and Princes in thee, they have thee at commandment. Remember, that for very anger thou •ast been sick: that the lust of thy flesh ⟨p. 240⟩hath driven thee to madness: forget not thy Atheism, thy contempt of Gods word, thy inward pride, thy envy, hatred, malice, thy covetousness, and infinite other wicked desires, which have led thee captive, and made thee outrageous in all kind of naughtiness. 10. Thy actual sins committed partly in secrete, partly in public, are most filthy and most infinite. Remember how in such a place, at such a time, thou didst commit fornication: in another place thou diddest steal, &c. God saw this I warrant thee• yea, all thy sins are written in his booke wherefore thou cursed wretch, all hope of mercy is cut off from thee.