A69075:1741
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.
By his sufferings, in abasing himself especially to suffer death, and so grievously to pay the payment of our sins.
By his sufferings, in abasing himselfe especially to suffer death, and so grieuously to pay the payment of our sinnes.
How cometh it then that Christ having borne the punishment of our sins, the godly are yet in this world afflicted for them; and that for the most part more then the ungodly?
How commeth it then that Christ hauing borne the punishment of our sinnes, the godly are yet in this world afflicted for them; and that for the most part more then the vngodly?
The affliction of the godly is no punishment,1 but a fatherly correction and chastisement in the world, that they should not perish with the world; whereas the wicked the longer they are spared, and the less they are punished in this life, their danger is the greater: for God reserveth their punishment to the life to come.
The affliction of the godly is no punishment,1 but a fatherly correction and chastisement in the world, that they should not perish with the world; whereas the wicked the longer they are spared, and the lesse they are punished in this life, their danger is the greater: for God reserueth their punishment to the life to come.