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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. Yes, being themselves deceived. But God's Word saith, we are Children of Wrath by Nature, that is, by Birth and Generation.
Q. Can you bring further proof of this?
A. Yes; In that day that we were born, we were polluted in our own Blood, and cast out to the loathing of our persons. Again, the Children of old that were dedicated unto the Lord, a Sacrifice was offered for them at a month old, which was before they were sinners by imitation, Ezek. 16.4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. Num. 18.14, 15, 16.
Q. Can you make this appear by experience?
A. Yes; The first things that bloom and put forth themselves in Children, show their Ignorance of God, their disobedience to Parents, and their innate enmity to Holiness of life; their inclinations naturally run to vanity. Besides, little Children die, but that they could not, were they not of God counted sinners; for death is the wages of sin,