A69075:2127
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.
Doth not God often times bestow his benefits without prayer?
Yes verily: to the wicked many things, either to provoke them to repent, or to make them inexcusable: and to his children, as a loving Father, in regard of his ignorant and sometimes negligent child, doth give things unasked; even so doth God towards his.
Yes verily: to the wicked many things, either to prouoke them to repent, or to make them inexcusable: and to his children, as a louing Father, in regard of his ignorant and sometimes negligent child, doth giue things vnasked; euen so doth God towards his.
What is the excellency thereof?
What is the excellencie thereof?
It is compared to incense or sweet perfumes,1 for ⟨p. 204⟩that they are as acceptable to the Lord as perfumes are to men; and to the drops of honey, as it were dropping from the lips of the Church as from a honey comb.