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The Plain Man's Pathway to Heaven
The plain mans path-way to heaven Wherein every man may clearly see, whether he shall be saved or damned. Set forth dialogue-wise, for the better understanding of the simple: By Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex. Corrected and amended: with a table of all the principal matters; and three prayers necessary to be used in private families thereunto added.The plaine mans path-way to heauen Wherein euery man may cleerely see, whether he shall be saued or damned. Set forth dialogue-wise, for the better vnderstanding of the simple: By Arthur Dent, preacher of the vvord of God at South-Shoobery in Essex. Corrected and amended: vvith a table of all the principall matters; and three prayers necessarie to be vsed in priuate families thereunto added.
London: printed by Melchiside Bradwood for Edw. Bishop, 1607London: printed by Melchiside Bradwood for Edvv. Bishop, 1607
The plain mans path-way to Heaven.The plaine mans path-way to Heauen.
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.
Phila. You speak, as if a man could do no other thing but sin, till the new work be wrought in him.
Phila. You speake, as if a man could do no other thing but sinne, till the new worke be wrought in him.
Theol. That is mine opinion indeed: for a man & his flesh are all one, till he be regenerate; they agree together like man & wife, they join together in all evil, they live and die together: for when the flesh perisheth, the man perisheth.
Theol. That is mine opinion indéed: for a man & his flesh are all one, til he be regenerate; they agrée together like man & wife, they ioine together in all euill, they liue and die together: for when the flesh perisheth, the man perisheth.
Phila. Is not this regeneration a changing or rather a destroying of humane nature?
Theol. Nothing less: It is neither an abolishing, nor changing of the substance of body or soul, or any of the faculties thereof: but ⟨p. 14⟩