A69075:2644
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.
1Not as the unthrift mentioned in the Gospel; neither as Judas, who is passively called the son of perdition; but actively, as it is otherwhere expounded, where he is called the destroyer, because he destroyed many: whereunto some of his own secretaries do agree; confessing that many well disposed persons, before their entry into that see, became cursed and cruel beasts in the same: as if there were some pestilent poison in that place and seat.
1Not as the vnthrift mentioned in the Gospell; neither as Iudas, who is passiuely called the sonne of perdition; but actiuely, as it is otherwhere expounded, where he is called the destroyer, because he destroyed many: whereunto some of his owne secretaries doe agree; confessing that many well disposed persons, before their entrie into that see, became cursed and cruell beasts in the same: as if there were some pestilent poyson in that place and seate.
- 1Luk. 15.
What learn you of this?
What learne you of this?
That every office or calling which the Lord doth not bless, or wherein none occupying, the place groweth in piety, is to be esteemed for an unlawful calling, wherein some at the least in all ages are not found profitable to the Church, or Common-wealth.
That euery office or calling which the Lord doth not blesse, or wherein none occupying, the place groweth in piety, is to bee esteemed for an vnlawfull calling, wherein some at the least in all ages are not found profitable to ye Church, or Common-wealth.