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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.
desire hi• of his endless mercy to work faith, and t• suppress your unbelief, and you shall see That the Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon his name.
desire hi• of his endles mercie to worke faith, and t• suppresse your vnbeliefe, and you shall see That the Lord ouer all is rich vnto all that call vpon his name.
Christian. The Lord reward you for your kindness: I will hereafter do my endeavour to practise this your counsel. Now I will make bold to show another that makes me to fear least I have no faith. And it is, because I do not feel the assurance of the forgiveness of my sins.
Christian. The Lord reward you for your kindnes: I will hereafter doo my endeuour to practise this your counsell. Nowe I will make bold to shew another that makes me to feare least I haue no faith. And it is, because I doe not feele the assurance of the forgiuenesse of my sinnes.
Minister. Faith standeth not in the feeling1 of Gods mercy, but in the apprehending of it, which apprehending may be when there is no feeling, for faith is of invisible things, and when a man once cometh to enjoy the thing believed, then he ceaseth to believe. And this appeareth in Jobs example, when he saith, Lo though he slay me, yet will I trust in him, & I will reprove my ways in his sight: he shall be my salvation also: for 2