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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.
1. Demonstration.
1. That which fighteth against, and opposeth the greatest Good, 1must needs be the greatest Evil▪ But now Sin opposeth and fighteth against the greatest Good. Hence a Father calls sin, Dei-cidium, God-slaughter, that which strikes against the Being and Essence of God, that which (were it strong enough) were it Infinitely evil, as God is Infinitely good, would labour to Un-Be God. God is Summum Bonum; and indeed, Non datur Summum Malum, sin cannot be infinite.
1. That which fighteth against, and opposeth the greatest Good, 1must needs be the greatest Evil▪ But now Sin opposeth and fighteth against the greatest Good. Hence a Father calls sin, Dei-cidium, God-slaughter, that which strikes against the Being and Essence of God, that which (were it strong enough) were it Infinitely evil, as God is Infinitely good, would labor to Un-Be God. God is Summum Bonum; and indeed, Non datur Summum Malum, sin cannot be infinite.
- 11. Demonstration or Reason Sin opposeth the greatest good: 1. God.