A69075:267
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.
What learn you from thence?
What learne you from thence?
That we should therein follow the example of the Lord to go from good to better, until we come to be perfect.
That wee should therein follow the example of the Lord to goe from good to better, vntill we come to be perfect.
What else is general?
What else is generall?
To have power and virtue given them to bring forth the like unto themselves for the continuance of their kind, is generally given to all those that are expressed in the creation here, albeit there be creatures, as stones and minerals, that bring not forth the like. And this blessing of multiplication is principal in the things that have the life of sense, beside the ⟨p. 22⟩life of increase. And therefore the Lord is brought in to speak to them in the second person: which he did not to the gross corn and trees,