A69075:1906
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.
Seeing no man is able to know the Law and the Gospel perfectly, much less the simple and common people: Tell me how far is this knowledge and feeling necessary?
Seeing no man is able to know the Law and the Gospell perfectly, much lesse the simple and common people: Tell me how farre is this knowledge and feeling necessarie?
It is necessary, first in the Law, that he be able thereby to understand the common corruption of ⟨p. 180⟩all men, both in the bitter root of original sin, and in the poisoned fruits thereof, together with the curse of everlasting death due thereunto: and that he be able to apply both these, that is, the sin and wages thereof to himself.
It is necessarie, first in the Law, that hee bee able thereby to vnderstand the common corruption of ⟨p. 180⟩all men, both in the bitter root of originall sinne, and in the poysoned fruits thereof, together with the curse of euerlasting death due thereunto: and that he be able to applie both these, that is, the sin and wages thereof to himselfe.
How far is the knowledge and feeling of the Gospel required?
How far is the knowledge and feeling of the Gospell required?