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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. Yea, but God of his goodness1 hath brought forth such tokens of faith in me, that I cannot be deceived. 1. I am displeased with my self for my manifold sins, in which sometime I have delighted and bathed my self. Rom. 7. 15. 24. 2. I purpose never to commit them again, if God give me strength, as I trust he will. 3. I have a very great desire to be doing those things which God commandeth. 4. Those that be the children of God. If I do but hear of them, I love them with my hart, and wish unto them as to my self. 1. John. 3. 14. 5. My heart leapeth for gladness, when I hear of the preaching of the word. 6. I long to see the coming of Christ Jesus, that an end may be made of sinning, and of displeasing God. Apoc. 22. 20. 7. I feel in my heart the fruits of the spirit, joy, love, peace, gentleness, meekness, patience, temperance: the works of the flesh I abhor them, fornication, adultery, uncleanness, wantonness, Idolatry, strife, envy, anger, drunkenness, bibbing and ⟨p. 247⟩quaffing, and all such like. Galatians. 5. 19. 20. 22. All these, they cannot proceed from thee Satan, or from my flesh, but only from faith which is wrought in me by gods holy spirit.
Christian. Yea, but God of his goodnesse1 hath brought foorth such tokens of faith in me, that I cannot be deceiued. 1. I am displeased with my selfe for my manifold sinnes, in which sometime I haue delighted and bathed my self. Rom. 7. 15. 24. 2. I purpose neuer to commit them againe, if God giue me strength, as I trust he will. 3. I haue a verie great desire to be doing those things which God commandeth. 4. Those that bee the children of God. If I doe but heare of them, I loue them with my hart, and wish vnto them as to my selfe.