A09466:491
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.
Satan. This thy full persuasion is only a fantasy, and a strong imagination of thine own head: it goeth not with thee as thou thinkest.
Sathan. This thy full perswasion is onely a phantasie, and a strong imagination of thine owne head: it goeth not with thee as thou thinkest.
Satan. It is no imagination, but trueth which I speak. For me thinks, I am as certain of my salvation, as though my name1 were registered in the Scriptures (as Davids and Pauls are) to be an elect vessel of God: and this is the testimony of the holy spirit of Jesus Christ, assuring me inwardly of my adoption, and making me with boldness and confidence in Christ, to pray unto God the father.
Sathan. It is no imagination, but trueth which I speake. For me thinks, I am as certaine of my saluation, as though my name1 were registred in the Scriptures (as Dauids and Pauls are) to be an elect vessell of God: and this is the testimonie of the holy spirit of Iesus Christ, assuring me inwardly of my adoption, and making me with boldnesse and confidence in Christ, to pray vnto God the father.