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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 use are the people of God to make of all this?
Father. What vse are the people of God to make of all this?
Child. This, to have so great a majesty always in singular admiration and reverence. And the rather, because in these corrupt times men grow so fast towards atheism and profaneness, that there is no more any common devotion amongest them, or any Reverence of a Godhead.
Child. This, to haue so great a maiestie alwayes in singular admiration and reuerence. And the rather, because in these corrupt times men grow so fast towards atheisme and prophainnesse, that there is no more any common deuotion amongest them, or any Reuerence of a Godhead.
Father. What yet further do you consider in God?
Father. What yet further doe you consider in God?
Child. That he is one in substance, three in persons. I mean that in this most simple and single essence the three several persons do subsist.