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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.
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.
Nay, when it is beaten out of the open field, by the power of God, and his Ordinances, then it hath strong Holds, as the Apostle tells us, 2 Cor. 10.4. and from thence fights against him, and opposeth him; there it lusts against him, it wills against him, the heart riseth against him.
When sin is beaten out of the field, yet a long time it will be, before it be beaten out of strong Holds.
When sin in Practise is overcome and conquered, yet sin in Affection is hard to be overcome: That Contrariety that is between God and your Heart is hard to be conquered.