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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.
3. Demonstration.
3. That, which is the sole Object of Gods hatred, 1must needs be the Greatest evil: But sin is the sole Object. Not only the Object, but the sole Object of Gods hatred: He hates nothing but Sin.
3. That, which is the sole Object of Gods hatred, 1must needs be the Greatest evil: But sin is the sole Object. Not onely the Object, but the sole Object of Gods hatred: He hates nothing but Sin.
- 13. Demonstr. Sin the sole object of Gods hatred.
His love runs in divers streams towards all things he hath made; But his hatred runs in One Chanel alone, and that is, Towards Sin.
If Man were made the Centre of all other Evils in the world, God could Love him under All, if sin were not there. And, if there be a Confluence of all other Goods, Health, Beauty, Riches, Learning, &c. God hates you, if Sin alone be there, Gods love cannot be there, but his wrath abideth there.