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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. I am content, let us hear it.
Minister. I am content, let vs heare it.
Christian. I am afraid least I have not truly repented, and therefore that all my profession is only in hypocrisy.
Christian. I am afraide least I haue not truelie repented, and therefore that all my profession is onelie in hypocrisie.
Minister. What moveth you to think so.
Minister. What mooueth you to thinke so.
Christian. Two causes especially, the first is, they which repent, leave off to sin: But I am miserable sinner, I am laden with great burdens of sin, I do continually displease God by my evil thoughts, words and deeds.
Christian. Two causes especiallie, the first is, they which repent, leaue off to sinne: But I am miserable sinner, I am laden with great burdens of sinne, I doo continuallie displease God by my euill thoughts, words and deeds.