A69075:557
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.
When there were better means of clothing, why did they were leather?
When there were better meanes of clothing, why did they were leather?
It seemeth that thereby they should draw themselves the rather to repentance and humiliation by that course clothing.
It seemeth that thereby they should draw themselues the rather to repentance and humiliation by that course clothing.
What learn you from thence?
What learne you from thence?
That howsoever our condition and state of calling afford us better array, yet we learn even in the best of our clothes to be humbled by them, as those which are given to cover our shame, and carry always the mark and badge of our sin; especially when these, which were even after the fall the goodliest creatures that ever lived, learned that lesson by them.
That howsoeuer our condition and state of calling affoord vs better aray, yet wee learne euen in the best of our clothes to be humbled by them, as those which are giuen to couer our shame, and carrie alwaies the marke and badge of our sinne; especiallie when these, which were euen after the fall the goodliest creatures that euer liued, learned that lesson by them.