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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.
Christian. All this which you say I find in my self by the mercy of God: my heart longeth after that grace of God which I want. I know I do hunger after the kingdom of heaven & the righteousness thereof: and further though I want the feeling of Gods mercy: yet I can pray for it, from the very root of my heart.
Christian. All this which you saie I finde in my selfe by the mercie of God: my harte longeth after that grace of God which I want. I know I doe hunger after the kingdome of heauen & the righteousnes thereof: and further though I want the feeling of Gods mercie: yet I can pray for it, from the verie roote of my heart.
Minister Be careful to give honour to god for that you have received already. For these thing are the motions of the spirit of1 God dwelling in you. And I am persuaded of this same thing, that God which hath begun this good work in you will perfect the same unto the day of Jesus Christ.
Minister Bee carefull to giue honour to god for that you haue receiued already. For these thing are the motions of the spirite of1 God dwelling in you. And I am perswaded of this same thing, that God which hath begon this good worke in you will perfect the same vnto the day of Iesus Christ.
Christian. The third thing that troubles me, is this. I have long prayed for many graces of God, and yet I have not received them, whereby it comes oft to my mind, that God loves me not: that I am none of his child: & therefore that I have no faith.