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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.
If Sin were as evil, as God is good; that is, Adequately, and Proportionably; if Infinitely evil, as God is good, sin would be Too hard for God to pardon, it would be Too hard for God to subdue, Too hard for God to Conquer; Sin would endeavour to conquer God.
If Sin were as evil, as God is good; that is, Adequately, and Proportionably; if Infinitely evil, as God is good, sin would be Too hard for God to pardon, it would be Too hard for God to subdue, Too hard for God to Conquer; Sin would endeavor to conquer God.
Indeed, there is more evil in the least sin, than there is good in any, nay all the Angels of Heaven; and therefore you see it conquered them, spoiled all their goodness, made them Devils; which it could not have done, if the good in them had been greater than the Evil in sin.
And, though it be not able to conquer God, to overcome him (there is more goodness in God, than Evil in Ten Thousand Hells of sin; and so it cannot overcome the power of God, the mercy of God, the holiness of God) yet it fights against God, and makes party against him every day. It musters up all its strength against God, and comes into open field to Bid Defiance against him every day.