A69076:642
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.
Q. 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.
Q. 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 bee a safe remedie.
A. It is far otherwise: for whether a man know it or no, his guilt remaineth: as debt is debt, although ⟨p. 68⟩the person indebted know it not, and it is by so much more dangerous, as not knowing it; he will never be careful to seek after the means to discharge it, till the Lords arrest be upon his back, when his knowledge will do him no good.