Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Whether thou have wilfully & willingly thrown thy self into any dangers, when as no necessity draw thee thereunto: whereunto: wherein thou didst directly tempt God.
Andreas Hyperius, The true trial and examination of a man’s own self wherein every faithful Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainly behold his spiritual deformity by nature, described, his actual rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptism, by ordinary transgression apparently proved, his lamentable estate through sin discovered, his wilful obstinacy by daily disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentance, and faith in Christ Jesus, he is from all the same clearly pardoned, forgiven, released and reconciled, trans. Thomas Newton (London: John Windet, 1587), p. 37.
Andreas Hyperius, The true trial and examination of a man’s own self wherein every faithful Christian, by looking into his conscience, may most plainly behold his spiritual deformity by nature, described, his actual rebellion by disobedience detected, his promise breach at baptism, by ordinary transgression apparently proved, his lamentable estate through sin discovered, his wilful obstinacy by daily disorder displayed, and lastly howe by earnest repentance, and faith in Christ Jesus, he is from all the same clearly pardoned, forgiven, released and reconciled, trans. Thomas Newton (London: John Windet, 1587), p. 37.
