A guide to go to GodA guide to goe to God

A.^a Our debts are many. Our sins are of sundry sorts:² and of every sort there are many in number. First original corruption, which is the seed and spawn of all sins, is a debt. ³Thereby forfeiture is made of that integrity wherein God at first created us, and which Gods Law, that is spiritual, requireth of us.^b This doth David expressly reckon up among those sins and debts whereof he desireth to be discharged. Besides all the sins which in our infancy, and younger years, even before our calling, which on ignorance or weakness we committed, are debts: in which respect^c the high Priest offered for the errors of the people. These are so many, as David was moved thereby to say,^d Who can understand his errors? Yet because they were debts, even the secretest of them, he desireth to be cleansed from them. Much greater debts are the sins which we commit after we come to riper years, or after our calling, against knowledge and conscience, wilfully and presumptuously. Earnestly therefore doth David pray to be^e kept from presumptuous sins. So many are the sins whereby, as by debts, we stand obliged to the justice of God, as they cannot possibly be all reckoned up. But the word DEBTS being indefinitely set down in the plural number without restraint to any sorts of sins, import all sins.

A.^a Our debts are many. Our sinnes are of sundry sorts:² and of euery sort there are many in number. First originall corruption, which is the seed and spawne of all sinnes, is a debt.