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The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises
The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises ... : never before published / by Samuel Bolton ...
London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657
Title page typeset from the transcription.
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.
As the Absence of all other goods, the Presence of all created evils, will not make thee Hateful to GOD, if Sin be not there: So the Presence of all other goods, and Absence of all other evils, will not render thee Lovely, if sin be there.
4. All other Evils do but oppose your well-being, nay, and your well-being for present (for they cannot rob you of future happiness) But this opposeth your well-being for ever: For you cannot be Happy, if you be not Holy; Nay, this opposeth your Being. It brought Death; you would sin your selves into Nothing again, if GOD did not hold you up To be, that you might Be miserable for sin.
5. All other evils are but Destructive to a mans self: fight but against Particulars: But this is contrary to the Universal Good, contrary to GOD; and (as far as it may) Destructive to the very Being of God: As I shall show hereafter.
5. All other evils are but Destructive to a mans self: fight but against Particulars: But this is contrary to the Universal Good, contrary to GOD; and (as far as it may) Destructive to the very Being of God: As I shall shew hereafter.