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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. I am fully so persuaded indeed without all doubting.
Child. I am fully so perswaded indéede without all doubting.
Father. How know you certainly that you have special interest in Christ, & that you shall be saved by his merits, sith thousands shall perish which will say as much as you, and in words make great brags, that they hope to be saved as well as the best of them all?
Father. How know you certainly that you haue speciall interest in Christ, & that you shall be saued by his merits, sith thousands shal perish which will say as much as you, and in words make great brags, that they hope to bee saued as well as the best of them all?
Child. I do certainly know it by the work of grace in my soul: I do certainly know it, because I feel it, for this I am sure of, that I feel that wrought in me from above, which cannot be in any but those whom God will save.
Child. I doe certainely know it by the worke of grace in my soule: I doe certainely know it, because I féele it, for this I am sure of, that I féele that wrought in me from aboue, which cannot bée in any but those whom God will saue.