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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.
Theol. In the state of condemnation, as appeareth, Ephe. 2. 3. We are by nature the children of wrath as well as others. And again it is written: Behold I was borne in iniquity,1 and in sin hath my mother conceived me.
Theol. In the state of condemnation, as appeareth, Ephe. 2. 3. We are by nature the children of wrath as well as others. And againe it is written: Behold I was borne in iniquitie,1 and in sin hath my mother conceiued me.
Phila. Is it every mans case? Are not Dukes and Nobles, Lords and Ladies, and the great Potentates of the earth exempted from it?
Phila. Is it euery mans case? Are not Dukes and Nobles, Lords and Ladies, and the great Potentates of the earth exempted from it?
Theol. No surely, it is the common case of all, both high and low, rich and poor, as it ⟨p. 5⟩is written: What is man that he should be1