A09466:505
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. I have had faith.
Christian. I haue had faith.
Satan. Thou never hadst true faith: fo• ⟨p. 251⟩in time past, when according to thine own opinion thou didst believe, then thou hadst nothing but a shadow of faith, and a foolish imagination, which all hypocrites have.
Sathan. Thou neuer hadst true faith: fo• ⟨p. 251⟩in time past, when according to thine own opinion thou didst beleeue, then thou hadst nothing but a shadow of faith, and a foolish imagination, which all hypocrites haue.
Christian. I will put my trust in god for ever,1 & his former mercies showed me heretofore strengthen me now in this my weakness. 1. He created me when I was nothing. 2. He created me a man, when he might have made me an ugly Toad. 3. He made me of comely body, and of good discretion: whereas he might have made me ugly, & deformed, frantic, & mad. 4. I was borne in the days of knowledge, when I might have been borne in the time of ignorance and superstition. 5. I was borne of Christian parents, but God might have given me either Turks or Jews, or some other savage people for my parents. 6. I might have perished in my mothers womb, but he hath preserved me, and provided for me by his providence, even unto this hour. 7. Soon after my birth, God might have cast me into hell, but contrariwise, I was baptized, and so received the seal of his blessed covenant.