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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
Consolations for the troubled consciences of repentant Sinners.
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.
Minister. What is one?
Christian. I am troubled with many doubtings of my salvation: and so it comes •nto my mind to think, that by my incredulity I should quite cut off my self from ⟨p. 266⟩the favour of God.
Christian. I am troubled with manye doubtings of my saluation: and so it comes •nto my minde to thinke, that by my incredulitie I should quite cut off my selfe from ⟨p. 266⟩the fauour of God.
Minister. But you must know this one thing, that he that never doubted of his salvation never believed, & that he which believeth in trueth feeleth many doubtings & waverings, even as the •ound man feels many grudgings of diseases which if he had not health he could not feel.
Minister. But you must knowe this one thing, that hee that neuer doubted of his saluation neuer beleeued, & that he which beleeueth in trueth feeleth manie doubtings & wauerings, euen as the •ound man feeles manie grudgings of diseases which if he had not health he could not feele.