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The opening of heaven gatesThe opening of heauen gates
The opening of heaven gates, or The ready way to everlasting life Delivered in a most familiar dialogue, between reason and religion, touching predestination, Gods word, and mans free-will, to the understanding of the weakest capacity, and the confirming of the more strong. By Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God, at South-Shoobery in Essex.The opening of heauen gates, or The ready way to euerlasting life Deliuered in a most familier dialogue, betweene reason and religion, touching predestination, Gods word, and mans free-will, to the vnderstanding of the weakest capacitie, and the confirming of the more strong. By Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God, at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by G. Eld for John Wright, 1610London: printed by G. Eld for Iohn Wright, 1610
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
•ust not that building needs be naught •e it never so fair, whose foundation ⟨p. 98⟩is utterly rotten; and must not that religion of necessity be worse, whose principles God hath flatly forbidden? he calleth mans reason, a traitorous enemy to GOD, saying, it never was nor shall be subject to his law: they honour it, as the1 true penny of their whole trust: he condemneth the precepts of our forefathers, forbidding us to pray for them, which do embrace the same, because they are Sepulchres full of rotten bones, clouds with out water, and they them-selves hypocrites, but they esteem them no less then loadesmen to all piety and life everlasting.
•ust not that building néeds be naught •e it neuer so faire, whose foundation ⟨p. 98⟩is vtterly rotten; and must not that religion of necessity be worse, whose principles God hath flattly forbidden? he calleth mans reason, a traterous enemy to GOD, saying, it neuer was nor shalbe subiect to his law: they honor it, as the1 true penny of their whole trust: hée condemneth the preceptes of our forefathers, forbidding vs to pray for them, which doe imbrace the same, because they are Sepulchres full of rotten bones, cloudes with out water, and they them-selues hvpocrites, but they estéeme them no lesse then loadesmen to all piety and life euerlasting.