A69075:610
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 a man doth not know whether he sin or no, how can he be smitten, or bitten, or barked at, or fly for fear? and therefore against all this evil, ignorance seemeth to be a safe remedy.
When a man doth not know whether hee sinne or no, how can he be smitten, or bitten, or barked at, or flie for feare? and therefore against all this euill, ignorance seemeth to be a safe remedie.
No verily: for whether he know it or no, his guilt remaineth: as the debt is debt, although a man know it not, and it is by so much more dangerous, as not ⟨p. 56⟩knowing it, he will never be careful to discharge it, till the Lords arrest be upon his back, when his knowledge will do him no good.