A09466:579
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. 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.
Christian. But Dauid neuer praied so manie yeares without receiuing an answere as I haue done.
Minister. Good Zechariah waited longer on the Lord, before he granted his request, then ever you did, Its like he prayed for a child in his younger years, yet his prayer was not heard before he was old. And further1 you must note, that the Lord may hear the prayers of his servants, and yet they be altogether ignorant of it: For the manner that God useth in granting their requests is not always known: as may appear in the example of our Saviour Christ. Who in the days of his flesh, did offer up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears, unto him