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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. Me thinketh it should not be possible.
Theol. Yes truly. For some of Gods dear children, in whom no doubt the inward work is truly and soundly wrought; yet are so troubled & encumbered with a crabbed and crooked nature, and so clogged with some master sin; as some with anger, some with pride, some with covetousness, some with lusts, some one way, and some another: all which breaking out in them, do so blemish them and their profession, that they cannot so shine forth unto men, as otherwise no doubt they would; and this is their wound, their grief, and their hart-smart, and that which costeth them many a tear, and many a prayer: and yet can they not get the full victory over them, but still they are left in them, as the prick in the flesh to humble them.
Theol. Yes truely. For some of Gods deare children, in whom no doubt the inward worke is truly and soundly wrought; yet are so troubled & encombred with a crabbed and crooked nature, and so clogged with some master sin; as some with anger, some with pride, some with couetousnesse, some with lusts, some one way, and some another: all which breaking out in them, doe so blemish them and their profession, that they cannot so shine forth vnto men, as otherwise no doubt they would; and this is their wound, their griefe, and their hart-smart, and that which costeth them many a téere, and many a praier: and yet can they not get the full victorie ouer them, but still they are left in them, as the pricke in the flesh to humble them.
Phila. Yet love should cover a multitude of such infirmities in Gods children.
Phila. Yet loue should couer a multitude of such infirmities in Gods children.