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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.
It will cost you many a battle, many an assault, before you can conquer sin in its strong Holds, overcome sin in the Heart.
It will cost you many a battel, many an assault, before you can conquer sin in its strong Holds, overcome sin in the Heart.
Though sometimes it may seem to be overcome, and to render up all: yet afterwards it gathers together again, and will make new and fresh assaults upon you, to weaken and to wound you.
Nay, and herein lies the Malignity, the poisonous and venomous nature of sin, that, though God hath conquered it, though it be never so weakened, yet will it act against God, spit its venom still.
Nay, and herein lies the Malignity, the poysonous and venemous nature of sin, that, though God hath conquered it, though it be never so weakned, yet will it act against God, spit its venome still.
An Emblem of it you have in the Thief upon the Cross; that when he was nailed upon the Cross, his hands and feet made fast, and had but one member loose; yet that one member could spit its venom at Christ, revile Christ; so, though God hath crucified sin, yet so long as there is any life in it, it will act it self, and spit venom against God, which shows that Great Contrariety betwixt God and sin.