A69075:699
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 drift of this place?
VVhat is the drift of this place?
It showeth two ways wherein happiness is recovered, the works of the law, and faith in the promise of grace: that the Law is not that way, whereby we can receive the happiness we have lost.
It sheweth two wayes wherein happines is recouered, the works of the law, and faith in the promise of grace: that the Law is not that way, whereby we can receiue the happines we haue lost.
How is that showed?
How is that shewed?
For that the promise of grace, whereby Abraham was justified, was 430. years before the Law; and therefore that the Law which cometh after cannot make void the covenant of grace; which it should do, if a man were justified by the law.
For that the promise of grace, whereby Abraham was iustified, was 430. yeares before the Law; and therefore that the Law which commeth after cannot make void the couenant of grace; which it should doe, if a man were iustified by the law.