A09466:69
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
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.
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He may be zealous in the religion which he professeth, and fall from that profession, as the Galatians did, twho, after that they had received Paul as an Angel, and would have plucked out their eyes to have done him good: yet they fell from the doctrine which he had taught them to justification by the works of the Law, which flat overthroweth justification by faith alone. uThe same appeareth in Jehu, who was very zealous for Gods cause, and for the defacing of Idolatry, and thereupon ⟨p. 17⟩God blessed him in his children: yet nevertheless, he was a wicked man, xand followed •ha vile sins of Jeroboam his father.
Hee may bee zealous in the religion which he professeth, and fall from that profession, as the Galathians did, twho, after that they had receiued Paule as an Angell, and woulde haue plucked out their eies to haue done him good: yet they fell from the doctrine which hee had taught them to iustification by the works of the Lawe, which flat ouerthroweth iustification by faith alone. u