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The sanctification of the minde is the en∣lightning
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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- 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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of it with the true knowledge of Gods word. It is of two sortes either sprituall vnderstanding or spirituall wisedome. Spirituall vnderstanding is a generall conceiuing of e∣uerie thing that is to be done, or not to bee done, out of Gods word. Spiritual wisdome is a worthie grace of God, by which a man is able to vnderstand out of Gods word, what is to be done, or not to be done in any parti∣cular thing, or action, according to the cir∣cumstances of person, time, place &c. Both these are in euery Christian, otherwise Paul would neuer haue praied for the Colossians k 1.1 That they might bee fulfilled with knowledge of Gods will, in all wisedome & spirituall vnderstan∣ding. In both these excelled Dauid, who te∣stified of himself that Gods l 1.2 word was a lanterne to his feete, and a light to his path: and that m 1.3 God by his commandements had made him wiser then his enimies: that he had more vnderstanding then all his teachers: because Gods testimonies were his meditations, n 1.4 that hee vnderstoode more then the auncient, because he kept Gods precepts. The pro∣perties of the mind enlightened are special∣lie two. The first is, that by it a Christian sees his owne blindnes, ignorance, vanitie, as appeareth in Dauid who being a prophet of God, yet prayed: o 1.5 open mine eyes (O Lord)
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that I may see the wonders of thy law. And hence it is that the godly so much bewailes the blindnes of the minds. Cōtrariwise the wic∣ked p 1.6 man in the middest of his blindnesse, thinkes himselfe to see. The second is that it runneth and is occupied in a continual me∣ditation of Gods word. So Dauid saith the q 1.7 righteous mās delight is in the law of the Lord, & in his law doth he meditate day and night.
Notes
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k 1.1
Col. 1. 9.
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l 1.2
Psal. 119. 105.
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m 1.3
Vers. 98. 99.
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n 1.4
100.
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o 1.5
18,
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p 1.6
Ioh. 9. 41.
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q 1.7
Psal. 1. 2.