A09466:528
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.
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Most men now a days, are secure & cold ⟨p. 260⟩in the profession of the Gospel, though they have the plentiful preaching of it. And the reason is, because they feel not in themselves the virtue and mighty operation of Gods word, to renew them: & they cannot feel it, because they do not apply the word aright unto their own souls. Plasters, except they be applied in order & time, & be laid upon the wound, though they be never so good, yet they cannot heal: & so it is with the word of God, & the parts of it, which except they be used in order & time convenient, will not humble and revive us, as their virtue is.
Most men now a daies, are secure & cold ⟨p. 260⟩in the professiō of the Gospel, though they haue the plentiful preaching of it. And the reason is, because they feel not in thēselues the vertue and mightie operation of Gods word, to renue them: & they cannot feel it, because they do not applie the word aright vnto their own soules. Plaisters, except they be applied in order & time, & be laied vpon the wound, though they be neuer so good, yet they cānot heal: & so it is with the word of God, & the parts of it, which except they be vsed in order & time conuenient, wil not humble and reuiue vs, as their vertue is.