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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.
Asune. You have made a very good speech. It doth me good to hear it. I wonder, all these things considered, that men should be so wholly given to this world, as they are. I think the devil hath bewitched them. For they shall carry nothing with them when they die, but their good deeds and their ill.
Asune. You haue made a very good speech. It doth me good to heare it. I wonder, all these things considered, that men should be so wholly giuen to this world, as they are. I thinke the diuell hath bewitched them. For they shall carry nothing with them when they die, but their good deeds and their ill.
Theol. The drudges and snudges of this world, may very fitly be compared to a Kings lumpter-horse, which goeth laden all the day long, with as much gold and treasure, as he ⟨p. 82⟩can bear; but at night his treasure is taken from him, he is turned into a sorry dirty stable, and hath nothing left him, but his galled back. Even so the rich cormorants and caterpillars of the earth, which here have treasured and horded up great heaps of gold and silver (with the which they travel loaden through this world) shall in the end be stripped out of all, let down into their grave, and have nothing left them but their galled consciences, with the which they shall be tumbled down into the dungeon of eternal darkness.
Theol. The drudges and snudges of this world, may very fitly be compared to a Kings lumpter-horse, which goeth laden all the day long, with as much gold and treasure, as hée ⟨p. 82⟩can beare; but at night his treasure is taken from him, he is turned into a sory durtie stable, and hath nothing left him, but his galled backe. Euen so the rich cormorants and caterpillers of the earth, which here haue treasured and hoorded vp great heapes of gold and siluer (with the which they trauell loaden thorow this world) shall in the end be stript out of all, let downe into their graue, and haue nothing left them but their galled consciences, with the which they shall be tumbled downe into the dungeon of eternall darkenesse.