A15859:237
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.
QUEST. V. Whether the Saints do persist unto the end in faith once given?
QVEST. V. Whether the Saints do persist vnto the end in faith once giuen?
THIS is the state of the Question; Whether the Elect, after they be once endued with true faith, and truly justified, regenerate, and engrafted into Christ, can again utterly fall away from faith and from Christ? Neither did I put in this Question this Particle (although the• sin against conscience and live wickedly) as I was untruly traduced:▪ for I was not ignorant, that this Clause would make the Question [Greek or Hebrew], that is, not questionable; for that it is impossible for one ⟨p. 228⟩to be in Christ, and to live wickedly, that is, to walk according to the flesh.
THIS is the state of the Question; Whether the Elect, after they be once endued with true faith, and truely iustified, regenerate, and ingraffed into Christ, can againe vtterly fall away from faith and from Christ? Neither did I put in this Quaestion this Particle (although the• sinne against conscience and liue wickedly) as I was vntruely traduced:▪ for I was not ignorant, that this Clause would make the Question 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, that is, not questionable; for that it is impossible for one ⟨p. 228⟩