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The foundation of Christian religion gathered into six principles and it is to be…
The foundation of Christian religion gathered into six principles and it is to be learned of ignorant people that they may be fit to hear sermons with profit, and to receive the Lords Supper with comfort. : [Two lines from Psalms] / By William Perkins.
printed by Samuel Green, 1682
The Exposition of the Six Principles. › Exposition 2: The second Principle Expounded.
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.
Q. Let us now come to our selves, and first tell me what the natural estate of man is?
A. Every man by nature is qdead in sin, as a loathsome carrion, or as a dead corps lieth rotting and stinking in the grave, having in him the seed of all sins.
Q. What is sin?
A. Any rbreach of the law of God, if it be no more but the least want of that which the Law requireth.
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