A15859:179
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
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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.
QUEST. II. The manner how the Saints do sin willingly.
QVEST. II. The manner how the Saints do sinn willingly.
Concerning the next point, they condemn this Proposition as false and monstrous, That the Saints, or Regenerate, when they sin, and that willingly, do sin not according to the inward man, that is, in that part wherein they are •egenerate, but only according to the outward […], that is, in that part wherein they are not regenerate, or •• sin not according to the spirit, ⟨p. 162⟩but according to the flesh▪ […] will sin by the will of th• […] but by the will of the […] therefore to sin in will […] not […]; and with consent, but not […]; which others do hold, […] much as not to sin with the […] mind: I say they do reject this P•• position, as false and horrible, as before is said: and on the other side they contend, that the Saints, […] they sin with consent, as […] and Peter sinned, that they […] with the whole and full will, and with all their heart. For so […] of Peter, that he denied […] with the whole hear•, and with […] whole heart abhorred Christ. […] therefore from hence they […] That the Saints when they sin w•• lingly, that they loose […] and the Holy Spirit totally▪ But […] the contrary part I do conde••• this their resolution, both generally, in all men sanctified, and specially in David and Peter, as re••• nant to the holy Scriptures, and the ⟨p. 163⟩