B02626:195
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.
Phil. Many do not think these to be such dangerous matters as you make them, and many there be which make light of them.
Phil. Many doe not think these to be such dangerous matters as you make them, and many there be which make light of them.
Theol. True indeed, for the most ⟨p. 34⟩part of men are altogether shut up in blindness and hardness of heart, having neither sight nor feeling of their sins, and therefore make light of them, thinking there is no such danger.
Theol. True indeed, for the most ⟨p. 34⟩part of men are altogether shut up in blindnesse and hardnesse of heart, having neither sight nor feeling of their sins, and therefore make light of them, thinking there is no such danger.
Phil. It is most certain, that men are given to lessen and extenuate their sins: or else to hide them, and daub them over with many cunning shifts and vain excuses. For men are ever ready to take covert, and will writhe and wreath (like snakes) to hide their sins: yea, if it were possible, to make sin no sin, to make virtue vice, and vice virtue. Therefore I pray you lay open unto me out of the Scriptures the grievousness and ugliness of their sins.
Phil. It is most certain, that men are given to lessen and extenuate their sins: or else to hide them, and dawb them over with many cunning shifts and vain excuses. For men are ever ready to take covert, and will writhe and wreath (like snakes) to hide their sins: yea, if it were possible, to make sin no sin, to make vertue vice, and vice vertue. Therefore I pray you lay open unto mee out of the Scriptures the grievousnesse and uglinesse of their sins.