A09466:469
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. Indeed their nature is to bring grief and heaviness to the soul, but I have had joy in the middest of my afflictions, &1 strength sufficient to bear them, and after them have ben many ways bettered, which befalleth to none of the wicked: and for that2 cause, it is a great persuasion to me, that • shall not be damned with the wicked world, but in spite of all thy power, pass from death to everlasting life.
Christian. Indeed their nature is to bring griefe and heauines to the soule, but I haue had ioy in the middest of my afflictions, &1 strength sufficient to beare them, and after them haue ben many waies bettered, which befalleth to none of the wicked: and for that2 cause, it is a great perswasion to mee, that • shal not be damned with the wicked world, but in spite of all thy power, passe frō death to euerlasting life.
Satan. After these thy manifold afflictions, thou must suffer death, which is mo•• terrible, and a very entrance to Hell.