A69075:2426
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.
May not earthly Magistrates thus punish sin?
May not earthly Magistrates thus punish sinne?
No verily, it were a cursed thing in Magistrates so to do; but God is above all Magistrates, who even for our natural corruption, may justly give us over to all naughty affections.
No verily, it were a cursed thing in Magistrates so to doe; but God is aboue all Magistrates, who euen for our naturall corruption, may iustly giue vs ouer to all naughtie affections.
Why do the Papists say, And suffer us not to be lead into temptation?
Why doe the Papists say, And suffer vs not to be lead into temptation?
1In a vain and foolish fear of making God to be guilty of sin, if he should be said, to lead us into temptation; and therefore lay the Lords words, as it were, in water, and change his tongue, and set him, as it were, to the Grammar school to teach him to speak, which teacheth all men to speak: whose folly is so much the greater, as it is the usual phrase of the Scripture.