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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.
XV.
He may confess his sins, even his particular sins before men: but this is only then, when his soul is tormented for them, and can find no ease. For then he sticketh not to utter his secret filthiness to the hearing of all men, and to the open shaming of himself. When God smote all that was in the fields of Egypt with hail, then Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses & Aaron, & said unto them: yI have now sinned, the Lord is righteous, but I and my people are wicked: pray ye unto the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mighty thunders, &c. So Judas, when he saw that Christ was condemned, and felt an hell in his conscience, brake out, and said, I have sinned in betraying the innocent blood. And the experience of these days giveth fearful examples for the proof of this point.
He may confesse his sinnes, euen his particular sinnes before men: but this is onely then, when his soule is tormented for them, and can find no ease. For then hee sticketh not to vtter his secret filthinesse to the hearing of all men, and to the open shaming of himselfe. When God smote all that was in the fieldes of AEgypt with hayle, then Pharao sent, and called for Moses & Aaron, & sayd vnto them: yI haue now sinned, the Lorde is righteous, but I and my people are wicked: pray ye vnto the Lord (for it is enough) that there be no more mightie thunders, &c. So Iudas, when he saw that Christ was condemned, and felt an hell in his conscience, brake out, and said, I haue sinned in betraying the innocent bloud. And the experience of these dayes giueth fearefull examples for the proofe of this point.