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A pastime for parents
A pastime for parents: or A recreation to pass away the time; containing the most principal grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.A pastime for parents: or A recreation to passe away the time; contayning the most principall grounds of Christian religion. By Arthur Dent preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by T. East for Thomas Man, 1606
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.
Child. In a most pure and excellent estate free from sin and corruption, being made after the very image of God in respect of knowledge,1 wisdom, and righteousness, having ⟨image 16⟩freedom of will, and Lordship over the earth.
Child. In a most pure and excellent estate frée from sinne and corruption, being made after the very image of God in respect of knowledge,1 wisedome, and righteousnesse, hauing ⟨image 16⟩fréedome of will, and Lordship ouer the earth.
Father. How then fell he from this so glorious and perfect estate?
Child. The woman being beguiled by the suggestion of Satan in the likeness of a serpent,1 did entice Adam her husband to eat of the forbidden fruit in the middest of the garden, and so presently, both lost all their former excellency, and also wrapped themselves, and their whole posterity in perpetual thraldom and misery:2