A69075:457
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 of outward senses?
That they are as it were windows, whereby sin entered into the heart when there was no sin; and therefore will much more now, the heart being corrupted.
That they are as it were windowes, whereby sinne entred into the heart when there was no sinne; and therefore will much more now, the heart being corrupted.
What learn you from thence?
What learne you from thence?
First, that we must shut them against all evil and unlawful use of their objects, and open them to the use of good things, and make a covenant with them, as Job did with his eyes,1 by a strong and painful resistance of the evil that cometh by the abuse of them:2 as it were cut them off and throw them away, as our Saviour giveth counsel.