A69075:587
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.
It is called original sin, which is a sin of all the posterity of Adam, whereby all the powers of the soul and body being infected, we are made drudges and slaves of sin.
It is called originall sinne, which is a sinne of al the posterity of Adam, whereby all the powers of the soule and bodie being infected, we are made drudges and slaues of sinne.
Seeing by the Law sin is, and the law was not before Moses; it seems that there is no sin until Moses?
Seing by the Law sinne is, and the law was not before Moses; it seemes that there is no sinne vntill Moses?
When it is said the Law was not before Moses, it is to be understood of the written Law in the tables of stone by the finger of God, and other laws ceremonial and political, written by Moses at the commandment of God: for otherwise the law (the ceremonial excepted,) was written in the hart of man, and for the decay thereof through sin, taught by those to whom that belonged, from the fall unto Moses.
When it is said the Law was not before Moses, it is to be vnderstood of the written Law in the tables of stone by the finger of God, and other lawes ceremoniall and politicall, written by Moses at the commandement of God: for otherwise the law (the ceremoniall excepted,) was written in the hart of man, and for the decay thereof through sinne, taught by those to whom that belonged, from the fall vnto Moses.