A69075:1450
Christian religion
Christian religion: substantially, methodically[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitably treatisedChristian religion: substantially, methodicalli[e,] [pla]inlie, and profitablie treatised
London: printed by Felix Kingston for Thomas Man, 1611
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
What is the second sin within us?
What is the second sinne within vs?
Wandering and evil thoughts, though we never like of them.
Wandering and euill thoughts, though we neuer like of them.
How can that be reckoned for sin, which is rejected as soon as it is hatched?
How can that be reckoned for sinne, which is reiected as soone as it is hatched?
Even the rising of such a thing in our minds, argueth our corruption of nature: for were not that inborn corruption, it could not once enter into our thoughts, further then it were offered unto us by some outward tentation of the devil, or of the world, as it was unto our Saviour Christ. And although in the incorrupt estate of a man, he might dutifully have thought of the transgression of the Commandment, with a perfect hatred of it; yet the same should not have been (as now it is) suddenly rising in the mind, without thinking or meditation of the naughtiness and hatefulness thereof; where now these thoughts rise suddenly, and the hatred and detestation cometh after, and is not in such perfection as then it should have been. Whereas the Lord our God hath the eyes of his glory so pure, that he will not allow of the least corruption in the temple of our hearts, where he seateth himself, and cannot abide that they should be made a thorough-fair, for evil thoughts to go up and down as it were jetting in them, but will have all whipped out.