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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.
He suffered Satan to tempt Paul, and gave him up to his buffetings, which yet is the Greatest Evil in the world next to sin, the Greatest penal Evil in the world: And all to prevent sin; as the Apostle himself saith, 2 Cor. 12.7.—God sent a Messenger of Satan to buffet him—And what was the reason? why it was to prevent sin—Lest he should be exalted above measure: that is, left he should be proud. And as he useth all other Evils for Prevention. So,
2. For the cure of sin. And you know, no Medicine can be so bad, as is this Disease. Now all other Evils God hath laid upon his people for the cure of sin, or for the recovery of them out of the state of sin.
And to speak as much as I can at once, There is not so much evil in the Damnation of a Thousand worlds of men for sin; As there is evil in the Least sin; the least sinful thought that riseth upon your spirits; inasmuch as the good of these, falls short of the good and glory of God.