A Christian instruction, containing the law and the Gospel Also a summary of the…A Christian instruction, conteyning the law and the Gospell Also a summarie of the…

Of divers degrees of sin, and of the root and fruits, and of their begetting and consummation.

Of diuers degrees of sin, and of the roote and fruites, and of their begetting and consummation.

T. IT seemeth to me that we may easily discern and extinguish by the deduction which thou makest, all the degrees of sin.

T. IT séemeth to me that we may easily discerne and extinguishe by the deductiō which thou makest, all the degrées of sin.

D. It is easy to do. This same first spring & natural corruption, with that inclination & nature which is alway given to evil, is the same which we do properly call original sin, which of it self is wholly damnable, & can not be overcome by man, but only in that that he is delivered, and that he is regenerate by the only grace and spirit of God. Afterward, that same concupiscence which watcheth continually in man, and procureth him to evil, ⟨p. 525⟩is as it were, the bud of that rotten root, and of that cursed spring, which is never without casting forth some such bud, how generate soever a man be, during the time that he is in this world wrapped in this body of sin, and in his outward man, and in his old Adam. Therefore it followeth that there is no man living, how holy so ever he be,¹