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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.
Satan. Thou miserable wretch, doest ••ou feel thy self graceless, and wilt thou •eare the face of a Christian? and by thy hypocrisy offend God? as thou art, so show ••y self to the world.
Sathan. Thou miserable wretch, doest ••ou feele thy selfe gracelesse, and wilt thou •eare the face of a Christian? and by thy •ypocrisie offend God? as thou art, so shew ••y selfe to the world.
Christian. Avoid Satan, Christ hath vanquished, and overcome thee for my •ause, that I might also triumph over thee. • am no hypocrite: for whereas I have had heretofore some testimony of my faith, at his time I am less moved, though faith ••eme to be absent: like as a man may seem […] be dead, both in his own sense, and by ⟨p. 254⟩the judgement of the Physician, and yet may have life in him: so faith may be, though always it do not appear.
Christian. Auoide Sathan, Christe hath anquished, and ouercome thee for my •ause, that I might also triumph ouer thee. • am no hypocrite: for whereas I haue had •eeretofore some testimonie of my faith, at his time I am lesse mooued, though faith ••eme to be absent: like as a man may seeme 〈…〉 bee dead, both in his owne sense, and by