. A treatise of the two sacraments of the gospell : baptisme and the Supper of the Lord ... de aPcarle in their Diiaghiil, and more grace than everthey looked for: unlcflc flavifli feare and unthankefulnefledoc them. Let them thereby the more praifcGod who pardoneth thefe their iranfgrcffions, and fay,who is a, god like to our god> and then although they muftadde,who is fo corrupt a wretch as I ? yet mercy flialldrownc their (inne in the Sea, never to appeare more. There-fore let them bee comforted; and looke what hath bccncfaid in the gencrall, touching Trial!, let rhem wifely a
. A treatise of the two sacraments of the gospell : baptisme and the Supper of the Lord ... de aPcarle in their Diiaghiil, and more grace than everthey looked for: unlcflc flavifli feare and unthankefulnefledoc them. Let them thereby the more praifcGod who pardoneth thefe their iranfgrcffions, and fay,who is a, god like to our god> and then although they muftadde,who is fo corrupt a wretch as I ? yet mercy flialldrownc their (inne in the Sea, never to appeare more. There-fore let them bee comforted; and looke what hath bccncfaid in the gencrall, touching Trial!, let rhem wifely ap-plie to the[^particulars following, to hdpe themfelves for-ward in the pradife thereof* This much for theVfcs. Having thus fpoken of the propeitiesof triall: 1 come tothe Ob/edl. And that is threefold: A CommunicaRt is to triehimfelfe, cither, firft, about his eftate in grace. Or fccondly,his wants, or elfc thirdly about his Sacramentall grace; con-cerning which, God willing, in the following Treatife morefcall be faid in their order. Chap. II. Trial ot eftate ObjeAion <gainft ic«. Of the Triall ofonr e§iate toward God. Oncerning which Triall, although I know therebe fiich flrange fpirits IHrring in thefe our daycs,as take for granted, that all thofc that arc baptized,and live under the Gofpell in a vifible Church, areundoubtedly in good eftate of grace without any more adoe;and therefore will rejed this as needlcffe to trie our eftates byfurer warrant: yet becaufe I know none of indifferent judge-ment, but abhorre their conceit; I fliall take libertie to confutethem with ftlcnce, and to proceede to (hew what bettertriall of a mans eftate tow^ards God may be one ob-jcdion of greater moment I moft firft remove out of the way:to wit^that the calling in queftion of our efhte toward God, upon Par f Bapti/me and the S$fpef oftht t9rt^ ^ 33 uponerery fucb occasion as tJac Sacrament, mayfccme toiii-fcrrc, that a Chriftians cftatcisavcry ftaggering coaditbn,wkich
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