A09466:471
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. Death hath lost his sting b• Christs death: and unto me it shall be nothing else but a passage unto everlasting life▪
Christian. Death hath lost his sting b• Christes death: and vnto me it shall be nothing els but a passage vnto euerlasting life▪
Satan. Admit thou shalt be delivere• from hell by Christ, what will this avail• thee, considering that thou shalt never com• to the kingdom of heaven? for Christe• death only delivereth thee from death eternal, it can not advance thee to everlasting life.
Sathan. Admit thou shalt bee deliuere• from hell by Christ, what will this auail• thee, cōsidering that thou shalt neuer com• to the kingdome of heauen? for Christe• death only deliuereth thee from death eternal, it can not aduance thee to euerlastin• life.
Christian. I am now at this time a member of Christs kingdom, and after this lif• shall reign with him for ever in his everlasting kingdom.