A69075:2152
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.
Two: the preface, and the prayer it self.
Two: the preface, and the prayer it selfe.
What gather you of this, that there is a preface set before the prayer?
1That Christian men are not to come malepertlie or rashly, but with preparation: for the Angel of the Lord standeth at the entry, to strike with hardness and blindness, &c. those that come without preparation: for if we make preparation before we come to an earthly Prince,2 and bethink us of our words and gesture; how much more ought we to do it, when we come before the Prince and Lord of Heaven and Earth?
1That Christian men are not to come malepertlie or rashly, but with preparation: for the Angell of the Lord standeth at the entrie, to strike with hardnesse and blindnesse, &c. those that come without preparation: for if we make preparation before we come to an earthly Prince,2 and bethinke vs of our words and gesture; how much more ought we to doe it, when we come before the Prince and Lord of Heauen and Earth?
- 1Eccls 5.1. Psalm. 26.6. Exod. 3.