A15859:272
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.
To. •. Moralium. lib. 2. cap. 28 & 29. he proposeth a Question touching the holy Spirit; How in John 14. that can be a concordance (The Spirit shall abide with you and be in you) with that Job. 1. (Upon whom ye shall see the Spirit descending, and abiding upon him; he it is which baptizeth with the holy Ghost) If also it abide in the disciples? How can it be therefore a peculiar sign, whereby Christ is acknowledged to be him, who baptizeth in the spirit? Answering th• Question, and reconciling ⟨p. 252⟩[…] ⟨p. 253⟩[…] ⟨p. 254⟩[…] ⟨p. 255⟩[…] ⟨p. 256⟩[…] ⟨p. 257⟩[…] ⟨p. 252⟩these places he putteth difference between those gifts of the holy Spirit▪ without the which we cannot come to life eternal, & those without which we may attain it. Afterward his conclusion is in these words therefore in those gifts without which we cannot come to life, whether in Preachers or in all the Elect, the holy Spirit is always permanent: But in such gifts whereby by manifestation thereof not our life is saved, but the life of others sought for, in no wise it is always permanent in the Preachers, for that always indeed it beareth rule in their heart for to live well, and yet doth not always show forth by them powerful signs, but sometime he withdraweth himself from manifestation of signs, that with so much more humility his virtues may be accounted, by how much being had they cannot be holden: But the Mediator between God and Man, the Man Jesus Christ, hath it in all things, and always, and