A69076:935
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. Declare the same more plainly.
A. If any (being joined unto God in Christ) have promised in Baptism to serve him alone; and yet notwithstanding will serve and worship others, how good soever they (be whether Angels, or Saints), they shall not escape Gods wrath: for if corporal adultery be so severely punished, much more shall spiritual.
A. If any (being ioyned vnto God in Christ) haue promised in Baptisme to serue him alone; and yet notwithstanding wil serue and worship others, how good soeuer they (be whether Angels, or Saints), they shall not escape Gods wrath: for if corporall adultery bee so seuerely punished, much more shall spirituall.
Q. But how doth that agree with the righteousness of God, to punish one for another?
Q. But how doth that agree with the righteousnesse of God, to punish one for another?
A. Very well: for if Princes (whose judgments are shallow in comparison of Gods, the depths whereof are past finding out) do with equity dis-inherit and put to shame the posterity of Traitors: the Lord may much more justly do the like. For the wicked child following his fathers steps, is a Traitor himself, having both his fathers sin, and his own upon his head.