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.
Author
Perkins, William, 1558-1602.
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Printed at London :: By R. Robinson, for T. Gubbin, and I. Porter,
[1590?]
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Christian ethics -- Early works to 1800.
Theology, Doctrinal -- Early works to 1800.
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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XXXIII

This sanctification is wrought in al Chri∣stians after this manner. After that they are* 1.1 ioined to Christ, and made misticallie bone of his bone, and flesh of his flesh, Christ worketh in them effectually by his holy spi∣rite, and his workes are principallie three. First, d 1.2 he causeth his owne death to worke effectuallie the death of all sinne, and to kill the power of the flesh. For it is as a Corra∣siue,

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which being applied to the part affec∣ted, eateth out the venime and corruption: and so the death of Christ by faith applyed, fretteth out and consumeth the concupis∣cence & the corruption of the whole man. * 1.3 Secondly, the buriall of Christ is the bu∣riall of sinne, as it were in a graue. e 1.4 Thirdly, his Resurrectiō sendeth a quickning power into them, & to make them rise out of their sinne, in which they were dead and buried, to worke righteousnes, & to liue in holines of life. Lazarus bodie lay foure daies, and stancke in the graue, yet Christ raised it and gaue him life againe, and made him do the same works that liuing mē do: so also Christ dealeth with the soules of the faithfull: they rotte and stincke in their sinnes, and would perish in them, if they were left alone: but Christ putteth a heauenlie life into them, & maketh them actiue and liuely to doe the will of God in the workes of Christianitie, and in the works of their callings. And this sanctification is throughout the whole mā: in the spirit, soule, and mind. 1. Thes. 5. 23. And here the spirit signifieth the mind and memorie, the soule, the will and affections.

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