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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. Did Adam then lose his nature and destroy it by his fall? or is our nature taken away by his fall?
Theol. Not so. Our nature was corrupted thereby, but not destroyed: for still there remaineth in our nature, reason, understanding, will, and affections, and we are not as a block, or a stock; but by Adams disobedience we are blemished, maimed, and spoiled of all ability to understand aright, or to will and do ⟨p. 7⟩aright. As it is written: We are not sufficient of our selves, to think any thing as of our1 selves: but our sufficiency is of God. And again: It is God which worketh in you both2 the will and the deed; even of his good pleasure. And as concerning the other point, S. James saith: That all men are made after the3 similitude of God; meaning thereby that there remain some relics and parts of Gods Image, even in the most wicked men: as reason, understanding, &c. so that our nature was not wholly destroyed.
Theol. Not so. Our nature was corrupted thereby, but not destroyed: for still there remaineth in our nature, reason, vnderstanding, will, and affections, and we are not as a block, or a stocke; but by Adams disobedience wee are blemished, maimed, and spoyled of all abilitie to vnderstand aright, or to will and doe ⟨p. 7⟩aright. As it is written: Wee are not sufficient of our selues, to thinke any thing as of our1 selues: but our sufficiencie is of God. And againe: It is God which worketh in you both2