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Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledge…Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledg…
Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledge which so much reigns both in young and old / prepared and presented to them in a plain and easy dialogue, fitted to the capacity of the weakest, by John Bunyan.Instruction for the ignorant being a salve to cure that great want of knowledg which so much reigns both in young and old / prepared and presented to them in a plain and easie dialogue, fitted to the capacity of the weakest, by John Bunyan.
London: printed for Francis Smith, 1675
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.
A. These things attending sinners, will make little sins great, yea greater than greater sins that are committed in grossest Ignorance.
A. These things attending sinners, will make little sins great, yea greater than greater sins that are commited in grossest Ignorance.
Q. How do you prove that?
A. Sodom and Gomorrah wallowed in all, or most of those gross Transgressions above-mentioned: yea, they were said to be sinners exceedingly, they lived in such sins as may not be spoken of without blushing, and yet God swears that Israel, his Church, had done worse than they; and the Lord Jesus also seconds it in that Threatening of his, I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than ⟨p. 17⟩for thee, Ezek. 16.48. Mat. 11.24. Luk. 10.12.
A. Sodom and Gomorrah wallowed in all, or most of those gross Transgressions above-mentioned: yea, they were said to be sinners exceedingly, they lived in such sins as may not be spoken of without blushing, and yet God swears that Israel, his Church, had done worse than they; and the Lord Jesus also seconds it in that Threatning of his, I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than ⟨p. 17⟩for thee,