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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. Well, Sir, you can but do your endeavour, and commit the success to God. You can but plant and water: let God give the increase. You are Ministers of the Letter; but not of the Spirit. You baptize with water; but not with the holy Ghost. If you therefore preach diligently, exhort, admonish and reprove publicly and privately, studying by all good example of life, and seeking with all good zeal, care and conscience, to do the uttermost that in you lieth, to reduce them from their evil ways: I take it, you are discharged, though they remain stubborn and incorrigible. For you know what the Lord saith by his Prophet, 1If you do admonish them, and give them warning, then you shall be discharged, and their blood shall be required at their own hands.
Phil. Well, Sir, you can but doe your endeavour, and commit the successe to God. You can but plant and water: let God give the increase. You are Ministers of the Letter; but not of the Spirit. You baptize with water; but not with the holy Ghost. If you therefore preach diligently, exhort, admonish and reprove publikely and privately, studying by all good example of life, and seeking with all good zeale, care and conscience, to doe the uttermost that in you lyeth, to reduce them from their evill wayes: I take it, you are discharged, though they remaine stubborne and incorrigible. For you know what the Lord saith by his Prophet, 1If you do admonish them, and give them warning, then you shall be discharged, and their bloud shall be required at their owne hands.
- 1Ezech. 3•.9.
Theol. You have spoken the truth. And therefore, sith some must needs take upon them this so great a charge, it will be our best course, to labour much with them in Catechizing, and private instructions, and that in most familiar and plain