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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. Such an one, as is mixed with the greatest ⟨p. 20⟩seriousness; as if he should say, I, do, sinners, go on in your sins if you dare; do, live in your vanities, but God will have a time to judg you for them.
Q. Is not this just as when my Father bids me be naught if I will, but if I be naught, he will beat me for it?
A. Yes; or like that saying of Joshua, If it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom you will serve; serve your sins at your peril, Josh. 24.15.
A. Yes; or like that saying of Joshua, If it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, chuse you this day whom you will serve; serve your sins at your peril, Josh. 24.15.
Q. Is it not best then for me to serve God?