A69075:1787
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.
Mortification is a continual dying unto sin, slaying, killing, deadening of sin; proceeding from the virtue of Christ his death and burial.
Mortification is a continuall dying vnto sin, slaying, killing, deadning of sinne; proceeding from the vertue of Christ his death and buriall.
What is the sin that must be mortified?
What is the sinne that must be mortified?
First, our natural corruption, or old man, called original sin, which is a readiness and proneness to that that is evil; and a frowardness and backwardness to that which is good: called also flesh, or the body of sin. 1Then, the fruits thereof, which are called the members of that body.
First, our naturall corruption, or old man, called originall sinne, which is a readinesse and pronenes to that that is euill; and a frowardnes and backwardnes to that which is good: called also flesh, or the body of sinne. 1Then, the fruits thereof, which are called the members of that body.
- 1Col. 3.