B02626:447
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. The holy Ghost often in the Proverbs of Solomon calleth all unregenerate men fools: or, as it is in the Hebrew, men without hearts: Because they have no heart to God, no heart to his word, no heart to his children, no heart to godliness, no heart to any thing that good is. They are without an honest heart, an upright heart, a plain heart. They are all in words, nothing in deeds. They promise mountains, and perform molehills. They will speak well of Religion, and practise nothing. They will give fair words to their friends, and do just nothing for them.
Theol. The holy Ghost often in the Proverbs of Solomon calleth all unregenerate men fooles: or, as it is in the Hebrew, men without hearts: Because they have no heart to God, no heart to his word, no heart to his children, no heart to godlinesse, no heart to any thing that good is. They are without an honest heart, an upright heart, a plaine heart. They are all in words, nothing in deeds. They promise mounraines, and performe molehils. They wil speak well of Religion, and practise nothing. They will give faire words to their friends, and doe just nothing for them.
Phil. The world is full of these masked counterfeits: and lying and dissembling did never more abound.
Theol. It is too true, that lying and dissembling are most rise, and overcommon vices amongst all sorts of ⟨p. 170⟩[…] ⟨p. 171⟩[…] ⟨p. 172⟩men: but especially it doth overflow and superabound in shop-keepers and servants. For both these make a trade and occupation of it: they can do no other but lye, It cleaveth unto them as the nail to the door.