The way step by step to sound and saving conversion,: with a clear discovery of the two states, viz: nature, & grace: and how to know in which state one is, and the way to come out of the one into the other. Or, The ready and right path-way for the first Adams posterity to get out of their fallen estate accompanied with sin and misery, into the relation and family of the last Adam, which estate is attended with grace and glory, &c. With many weighty questions answered, and cases of conscience resolved, for the clearing and confirming the truths asserted. / By Robert Purnell.

About this Item

Title: The way step by step to sound and saving conversion,: with a clear discovery of the two states, viz: nature, & grace: and how to know in which state one is, and the way to come out of the one into the other. Or, The ready and right path-way for the first Adams posterity to get out of their fallen estate accompanied with sin and misery, into the relation and family of the last Adam, which estate is attended with grace and glory, &c. With many weighty questions answered, and cases of conscience resolved, for the clearing and confirming the truths asserted. / By Robert Purnell.
Author: Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.
Publication: London :: Printed by T. Childe, and L. Parry, for Edw. Thomas at the Adam and Eve in Little Britain,; 1659.
Rights/Permissions: This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. Searching, reading, printing, or downloading EEBO-TCP texts is reserved for the authorized users of these project partner institutions. Permission must be granted for subsequent distribution, in print or electronically, of this text, in whole or in part. Please contact project staff at eebotcp-info@umich.edu for further further information or permissions.
Subject terms: Conversion
Cite this Item: "The way step by step to sound and saving conversion,: with a clear discovery of the two states, viz: nature, & grace: and how to know in which state one is, and the way to come out of the one into the other. Or, The ready and right path-way for the first Adams posterity to get out of their fallen estate accompanied with sin and misery, into the relation and family of the last Adam, which estate is attended with grace and glory, &c. With many weighty questions answered, and cases of conscience resolved, for the clearing and confirming the truths asserted. / By Robert Purnell." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91366.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.

Pages

Q. Then Election seemeth to be the cause of salvation, and Reprobation the cause of damnation?

An. Election and Reprobation are not in any sense the causes of salvation and damnation, but Christ is the pro∣per and meritorious cause of salvation, and Sin the proper and meritorious cause of damnation; election and repro∣bation, they are but precedent acts or decrees, and the causes of salvation and damnation; they come in between the decrees and the execution thereof. If it be demanded, Why the Potter out of the same lump makes vessels of such different condition? It is answered, because there be different uses of those vessels in the house. If again it be demanded, Why out of one piece of the same lump a vessel of honour is made, and a vessel to dishonour? It is answered because itso pleased the Pot∣ter. O the unlimited Soveraignty of the being of beings. how unsearchable are his judgements and his wayes past finding out, Rom. 11. 33.