A15859:166
Speculum Christianum
Speculum Christianum or, A Christian survey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, grave, and learned divine, master Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseverance of the saints. 3. A summary abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.Speculum Christianum or, A Christian suruey for the conscience Containing, three tractates of that eminent, graue, and learned diuine, maister Hierome Zanchius. 1. Of the end of the world. 2. Of the perseuerance of the saints. 3. A summarie abridgement of his protections. Englished for the good of Gods church, and for a warning to wicked and impenitent men. By H.N.
London: printed by George Eld, 1614
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
And from hence also it is m••ifest, that it is without controvers••• whether the Saints by those […] in some sort are become the e•• mies of God, and fallen from th•• grace of God; that is, in that […] as sons are said to be […] from the fa••ur of their […] ⟨p. 145⟩children when they displease their […] •nd do now in cense them […]; are said after a manner to […] of the […] of their […] in this respect, that is •• say) That although they have […] cast of• their fatherly affection […] and their children▪ neither yet […] th•i• resolution of o•••ining ••d declaring them to be the heirs […] their good• ▪ yet taking offence •• the sinne• of their children, they […] turn their fatherly cockerings (in […]) in•• […] severity, and […] effect of love into such […] as […] utterly ha•••ull▪ for […] bitterly ••full▪ and be •old […] with […] them […], and as […] they do most […] •ear […] only excepted that they […] life away. […] were […] in very deed […] and quite […] their […] of God […] •a•d