A69076:634
A treatise of Christian religion
A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole body and substance of divinity. By T.C.A treatise of Christian religion. Or, the whole bodie and substance of diunintie. By T.C.
London: printed by Felix Kyngston for Thomas Man, 1616
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.
A. Very much: for it worketh unquietness in the mind; as when a man is bound in an obligation upon a great forfeiture, the very obligation it self disquieteth him; especially if he be not able to pay it (as we are not): and yet more, because where other debts have a day set for payment, we know not whether the Lord will demand by punishment his debt, this day before the morrow.
A. Very much: for it worketh vnquietnesse in the mind; as when a man is bound in an obligation vpon a great forfeiture, the very obligation it selfe disquieteth him; especially if he be not able to pay it (as wee are not): and yet more, because where other debts haue a day set for paiment, we know not whether the Lord will demand by punishment his debt, this day before the morrow.
Q. What learn you from this?
Q. What learne you from this?
A. That sith men should shun by all means to be in other mens debts or danger, as also the Apostle exhorteth, ⟨p. 67⟩Owe nothing to any man; & Solomon also counselleth 1in the matter of surety-ship; we should more warily take heed, that we plunge not our selves over head and ears in the Lords debt: for if it be a terrible thing to be bound to any man in statutes, staple, or merchant, or recognisance; much more to be bound to God, who will be paid, by one means or other, to the uttermost farthing.
A. That sith men should shun by all meanes to bee in other mens debts or danger, as also the Apostle exhorteth,