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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. 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 2the hypocrite shall not come before him, he declareth his faith: yet when he saith presently afterward, Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enemy? he declareth the want of that feeling which you speak off.
Minister. Faith standeth not in the feeling1 of Gods mercie, but in the apprehending of it, which apprehending maie bee when there is no feeling, for faith is of inuisible things, and when a man once commeth to enioy the thing beleeued, then hee ceaseth to beleeue. And this appeareth in Iobs example, when he saith, Lo though hee sleie me, yet will I trust in him, & I will reprooue my waies in his sight: he shalbe my saluation also: for 2the hypocrite shal not come before him, hee declareth his faith: yet when he saith presentlie afterwarde, Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and takest me for thine enimie? hee declareth the want of that feeling which you speake off.