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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.
Father. What difference then do you make betwixt the knowledge of the elect & the reprobate?
Father. What difference then doe you make betwixt the knowledge of the elect & the reprobate?
Child. The knowledge of the reprobate doth puff up. The knowledge of the elect doth humble. The knowledge of the reprobate is general and confused. The knowledge of the elect is particular and certain. The knowledge of the reprobates is only literal: and historical. The knowledge of the elect is spiritual, and experimental. The knowledge of the reprobate is speculative. The knowledge of the elect is practive, that is, joined with obedience. For howsoever a natural, and unregenerate man may know much: yet ⟨image 23⟩hath he not nor can have any power to do, I mean, cheerfully and aright till his heart be enlarged by Christ & his will renewed by grace. The knowledge of the reprobate is like the knowledge which a mathematical geographer hath of the earth and all places in it, which is but a general notion, and speculative comprehension of them. But the knowledge of the elect is like the knowledge of a traveller which can speak of experience, and feeling, and hath been there and seen and known the particulars.
Child. The knowledge of the reprobate doth puffe vp. The knowledge of the elect doth humble. The knowledge of the reprobate is generall and confused. The knowledge of the elect is particular and certaine. The knowledge of the reprobates is onely literall: and historicall. The knowledge of the elect is spirituall, and experimentall. The knowledge of the reprobate is speculatiue. The knowledge of the elect is practiue, that is, ioyned with obedience. For howsoeuer a naturall, and vnregenerate man may know much: yet ⟨image 23⟩hath hée not nor can haue any power to doe, I meane, chearfully and aright till his heart bée enlarged by Christ & his will renued by grace. The knowledge of the reprobate is like ye knowledge which a mathematicall geographer hath of the earth and all places in it, which is but a generall notion, and speculatiue comprehension of them. But the knowledge of the elect is like the knowledge of a traueller which can speake of experience, and féeling, and hath béene there and séene and knowen the particulars.