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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.
Antile. But I think, we may serve God well enough without a Preacher. For, Preachers are but men; and what can they do? A Preacher is a good man, so long as he is in the Pulpit; but if he be out of the Pulpit, he is but as another man.
Antile. But I thinke, we may serue God well enough without a Preacher. For, Preachers are but men; and what can they doe? A Preacher is a good man, so long as he is in the Pulpit; but if he be out of the Pulpit, he is but as another man.
Theol. You speak contemptuously of Gods messengers, and of Gods sacred ordinance. But the Apostle doth fully answer your objection, saying: Faith cometh by hearing, and hearing1 by the word of God; and how can they hear without a Preacher? In which words, the Apostle telleth you flatly, that you can neither have faith, nor serve God aright, without preaching.
Theol. You speake contemptuously of Gods messengers, and of Gods sacred ordinance. But the Apostle doth fully answer your obiection, saying: Faith commeth by hearing, and hearing1 by the word of God; and how can they heare without a Preacher? In which words, the Apostle telleth you flatly, that you can neither haue faith, nor serue God aright, without preaching.
- 1Rom. 10.
Antile. When you have Preached all that you can, you can make the word of God no better then it is: and some put in and put out what they list. The Scriptures are but mens inventions: and they made the Scriptures.