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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. 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.
Christian. The third thing that troubles me, is this. I haue long prayed for manie graces of God, and yet I haue not receiued them, whereby it comes oft to my minde, that God loues me not: that I am none of his child: & therefore that I haue no faith.
Minister. You are in no other case then David himself, who made the same complaint: I am weary of crying, my throat is dri• ▪ 1mine eyes fail, whiles I wait for my God.
Minister. You are in no other case then Dauid himselfe, who made the same complaint: I am wearie of crying, my throate is dri• ▪ 1mine eies faile, whiles I waite for my God.
Christian. But David never prayed so many years without receiving an answer as I have done.