XXVII.
The slumbring & dead conscience is much
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.
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- 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.
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- Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
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- Printed at London :: By R. Robinson, for T. Gubbin, and I. Porter,
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- Grace (Theology) -- Early works to 1800.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A09466.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 2, 2024.
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like to the good conscience pacified, & ma∣nie* 1.1 through ignorance take the one for the other. But they maie be seuered and discer∣ned thus. First, let the beleeuing Christian examine himselfe, whether his conscience was afflicted with the sense of Gods iudge∣ments, and pressed downe with the burden of his sinne before hee came to that quiet∣nes: for then he may be in good hope, that it was the Spirit of God who brought that peace, because God hath promised f 1.2 That he will dwell with the humble and contrite, to reuiue and quicken them. But if hee haue alwayes had that peace from the beginning of his dayes, he maie easilie deceiue himselfe, by taking the numnesse and securitie of a defi∣led conscience for true peace of cōscience. Secondly, let him search from whence this* 1.3 peace of his conscience proceedeth. g 1.4 For if it come from anie thing else but from the certaintie of the remission of sinne, it is no true peace: as manie, flattering themselues in sinne, and dreaming of a pardon, are therevpon quieted, and the Deuill is readie enough to put this into their mindes: but this can bee no true peace. Thirdlie, let him examine himselfe, if he haue a care to keepe a good conscience: which if hee haue, he
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hath also reciued from the Lord a good and a quiet conscience. h 1.5 For if God bestowe vpon anie man a gift concerning his salua∣tion, he giueth him also a care to keepe it.
Notes
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* 1.1
A diffe∣rence be∣tweene a dead con∣science & a quiet cō∣science.
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f 1.2
Ioh 7. 37. Esay. 57. 15
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* 1.3
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g 1.4
Rom. 5. 1 Heb. 9. 14.
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h 1.5
Act. 23. 1. & 24. 16.