The plain mans path-way to heaven

Theol. No surely, but are altogether blinded and hardened in it, being nothing desirous to come out of it, but do greatly please themselves in it, and can hardly be persuaded that they are in any such woeful case: as appeareth plainly in the example of that Ruler, who being commanded, or rather required of our Saviour Christ to keep the commandments, answered, All these have I kept from my youth, Luke 18.21. And again, although the Church of Laodicea was wretched, miserable, poor, blind, and naked; yet she thought her self rich, increased with goods, and wanting nothing. It followeth then, that so long as men are in the state of nat••e, they have no true sight and feeling of their miseries.

Theol. No surely, but are altogether blinded and hardened in it, being nothing desirous to come out of it, but doe greatly please themselves in it, and can hardly be perswaded that they are in any such wofull case: as appeareth plainly in the example of that Ruler, who being commanded, or rather required of our Saviour Christ to keep the commandements, answered, All these have I kept from my youth, Luke 18.21. And againe, although the Church of Laodicca was wretched, miserable, poor, blinde, and naked; yet she thought her selfe rich, increased with goods, and wanting nothing. It followeth then, that so long as men are in the state of nat••e, they have no true sight and feeling of their miseries.

Phil. Do you not think that all men, being merely natural, are under the c•rse of the Law?

Phil. Doe you not think that all men, being meerly naturall, are under the c•rse of the Law?