B02626:135
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.
Asun. You go too far; you judge too hardly of them.
Theol. Not a whit. For all experience showeth, that they mind, dream, & dote of nothing else day and night, but this world, this world, lands & leases, grounds and livings, kine & sheep, and how to wax rich. All their thoughts, words, and works are of these & such like things. And their actions do most manifestly declare, that they are of the earth, and speak of the earth, and there is nothing in them but earth, earth. As for Sermons, they care not how few they hear: And for the scriptures, they regard them not, they read them not, they esteem them not worth the while, there is nothing more irksome unto them: they had rather pill straws, or do any thing, then hear, read, or confer of the Scriptures. And as the ⟨p. 21⟩Prophet saith:1 The word of the Lord is as a reproach unto them, they have no delight in it.
Theol. Not a whit. For all experience sheweth, that they mind, dream, & dote of nothing else day and night, but this world, this world, lands & leases, grounds and livings, kine & sheep, and how to wax rich. All their thoughts, words, and works are of these & such like things. And their actions do most manifestly declare, that they are of the earth, and speak of the earth, and there is nothing in them but earth, earth. As for Sermons, they care not how few they hear: And for the scriptures, they regard them not, they read them not, they esteem them not worth the while, there is nothing more irksome unto them: they had rather pill strawes, or doe any thing, then hear, read, or conferre of the Scriptures. And as the ⟨p. 21⟩Prophet saith:1 The word of the Lord is as a reproach unto them, they have no delight in it.