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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. No doubt, Sir, you are within compass. For now almost so many men, so many oaths; excepting some few in comparison. Nay, I know divers of mine own experience, which if they may be kept in talk, will swear every day in the year an hundred oaths for their parts.
Phila. No doubt, Sir, you are within compasse. For now almost so many men, so many oathes; excepting some few in comparison. Nay, I know diuers of mine owne experience, which if they may be kept in talke, will sweare euery day in the yeare an hundred oathes for their parts.
Theol. Oh what a lamentable thing is it! We may well take up the old complaint of the Prophet Jeremiah, who saith; that in his time the Land did mourn, because of oaths. 1And we may well wonder, that the land sinketh not because of oaths. For, if God were not a God of infinite patience, how could he endure his most sacred and glorious name to be so many thousand times blasphemed in one day? and that, by such miserable wretches as we be.
Theol. Oh what a lamentable thing is it! We may well take vp the old complaint of the Prophet Ieremie, who saith; that in his time the Land did mourne, because of oathes. 1And we may wel wonder, that the land sinketh not because of oathes. For, if God were not a God of infinite patience, how could he endure his most sacred and glorious name to be so many thousand times blasphemed in one day? and that, by such miserable wretches as we be.