A69075:381
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 is the end or effect of this government in all things whatsoever?
VVhat is the end or effect of this gouernment in all things whatsoeuer?
The one is, that we should fear God: far otherwise then the wicked conclude, which upon that that it is taught,1 that all things come to pass by the providence ⟨p. 33⟩of God, according to that he hath decreed, would conclude, that then a man may give himself liberty to do any thing, considering that it must needs be executed that God hath decreed.
The one is, that we should feare God: farre otherwise then the wicked conclude, which vpon that that it is taught,1 that all things come to passe by the prouidence ⟨p. 33⟩of God, according to that he hath decreed, would conclude, that then a man may giue himselfe libertie to doe any thing, considering that it must needs be executed that God hath decreed.
- 1Ecclesiast. 3.11.14.
The other, that which the Apostle noteth in this text, that God therefore in all things even in the sins of men, is to be glorified, for the good things he draweth forth from their evil.