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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.
XVII.
The wicked in their distress may pray to God, and God may hear their prayers, and grant them their request, aas the Israelites, wickedly murmuring against God, desired flesh in the wilderness: God heard their cry, and rained Quails among them. But God heareth the wicked after one sort, and them that fear him after an other: them that fear him, he granteth their requests of love & mercy: to the other, of indignation and anger. bAs may appear in the Israelites, who when they were in eating of their Quails, and the meat was within their teeth, God in his anger stroke them with a sore plague. And (which is more strange then this) God hath performed that which he hath promised to the unbelievers, though they refused to ask it at his hands: cof this thing we have a worthy example in King Achas, who utterly refused to have a sign of his ⟨p. 11⟩deliverance, and the confusion of his enemies, when God offered it to him, and yet •e Lord delivered him.
The wicked in their distresse may pray to God, and God may heare their prayers, and graunt them their request, aas the Israelites, wickedly murmuring against God, desired flesh in the wildernes: God heard their crie, and rained Quailes among them. But God heareth the wicked after one sort, and them that feare him after an other: thē that feare him, he graunteth their requestes of loue & mercie: to the other, of indignation and anger.