A69076:755
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. What is the drift of this Scripture?
Q. VVhat is the drift of this Scripture?
A. It showeth two ways of recovering happiness; the one by the works of the Law, the other by faith in the promise of grace: and that the Law is not that way, whereby we can receive the Happiness we have lost.
A. It sheweth two waies of recouering happines; the one by the workes of the Law, the other by faith in the promise of grace: and that the Law is not that way, whereby we can receiue the Happinesse we haue lost.
Q. How is that showed?
Q. How is that shewed?
A. 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.
A. For that the promise of grace, whereby Abraham was iustified, was 430. yeeres 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.