B02626:102
The plain mans path-way to heaven
The plain mans path-way to heaven wherein every man may clearly see whether he shall be saved or damned. / Set forth dialogue-wise for the better understanding of the simple, by Arthur Dent, preacher of the word of God at South-Shoobery in Essex.
London: printed by Ja. Young for G. Lathum, 1643
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.
Theol. No more then a dead man can desire the good things of this life. For mans will is not tree to consent unto good, till it be enlarged by grace: and an unregenerate man doth sin necessarily, though not by constraint. For mans will is free from constraint (for it sinneth of it self) but not from thraldom unto sin.
Theol. No more then a dead man can desire the good things of this life. For mans will is not tree to consent unto good, till it be enlarged by grace: and an unregenerate man doth sin necessarily, though not by constraint. For mans will is free from constraint (for it sinneth of it self) but not from thraldome unto sin.
Phil. You speak, as if a man could do no other thing but sin till the new work be wrought in him.
Theol. That is mine opinion indeed. For a man and his flesh are all one, till he be regenerate: they agree together like man and wife, they join together in all evil, they live and die together: for when the flesh perisheth, the man perisheth.
Theol. That is mine opinion indeed. For a man and his flesh are all one, till hee be regenerate: they agree together like man and wife, they join together in all evill, they live and die together: for when the flesh perisheth, the man perisheth.