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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.
Fourth Royalty, Faith is an Heart-quieting Grace, an Heart-calming and stilling-Grace.
It is a Grace they lays all the tumults in the Soul: all the insurrections in the Soul.1 When Passions are up, and unruly Affections do stir, Faith doth allay and hush them. When Passions of Fear are up, Faith lays them; will not suffer unruly fears to come into the Throne, to command the Soul.
It is a Grace thay layes all the tumults in the Soul: all the insurrections in the Soul.1 When Passions are up, and unruly Affections do stir, Faith doth allay and hush them. When Passions of Fear are up, Faith laies them; will not suffer unruly fears to come into the Throne, to command the Soul.
- 1Fourth Royalty of Faith. Its an Heart-quieting-Grace.
When Passions of Anger are up, Faith doth quench their heat: when Grief stirs, Faith doth bridle and moderate this: when Discontent is up, and the Soul is ready to murmur and quarrel against God, and his dealings; Faith doth lay all these risings. Faith hath a special art to still the Soul, to strike it dumb in these cases. Hence you see David. — I was dumb, and opened not my mouth,