The sinners guyde A vvorke contayning the whole regiment of a Christian life, deuided into two bookes: vvherein sinners are reclaimed from the by-path of vice and destruction, and brought vnto the high-way of euerlasting happinesse. Compiled in the Spanish tongue, by the learned and reuerend diuine, F. Lewes of Granada. Since translated into Latine, Italian, and French. And nowe perused, and digested into English, by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes, and student in diuinitie.
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The sinners guyde A vvorke contayning the whole regiment of a Christian life, deuided into two bookes: vvherein sinners are reclaimed from the by-path of vice and destruction, and brought vnto the high-way of euerlasting happinesse. Compiled in the Spanish tongue, by the learned and reuerend diuine, F. Lewes of Granada. Since translated into Latine, Italian, and French. And nowe perused, and digested into English, by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes, and student in diuinitie.
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Luis, de Granada, 1504-1588.
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At London :: Printed by Iames Roberts, for Paule Linley, & Iohn Flasket, and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the Beare,
Anno. Dom. 1598.
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Christian life -- Early works to 1800.
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"The sinners guyde A vvorke contayning the whole regiment of a Christian life, deuided into two bookes: vvherein sinners are reclaimed from the by-path of vice and destruction, and brought vnto the high-way of euerlasting happinesse. Compiled in the Spanish tongue, by the learned and reuerend diuine, F. Lewes of Granada. Since translated into Latine, Italian, and French. And nowe perused, and digested into English, by Francis Meres, Maister of Artes, and student in diuinitie." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06447.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Patience aunswereth.
If the passion of our Redeemer be called to minde, nothing is so hard or rough,* 1.1 that with patience may not be borne. For Christ, sayth Peter, hath suffered for vs, leauing vs an example, that we should follow his steps.* 1.2 For he himselfe sayth: If they haue called the Lord of the house Beelzebub, howe much more shall they call them of his houshold? If they haue persecuted mee, they will also persecute you. But how small are the things that we suffer, in cō∣parison
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of his passions? For hee suffered reproches, mockings, reuilings, slaunders, blowes, spettings, whippings, the thornie crowne, and the Crosse; and we wretches to our owne confusi∣on are wearied, vexed, and cast downe at one word.