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Name: The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatises
Author: Samuel Bolton

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 ...

Samuel Bolton 1606–1654London: printed by Robert Ibbitson for Thomas Parkhurst, 1657

[34], 420 [i.e. 455], [2] p. : port. · 221k words · Wing B3518 · ESTC R7007

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A TREATISE OF THE NATURE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 4: Fourth Royalty, Faith is an Heart-quieting Grace, an Heart-calming and stilling-Grace.A TREATISE OF THE NATƲRE & ROYALTIES OF FAITH. › Royalty 4: Fourth Royalty, Faith is an Heart-quieting Grace, an Heart-calming and stilling-Grace.

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We read indeed Zechariah was dumb; but Infidelity struck him dumb. — David saith here — he was dumb, but Faith struck him dumb. The former was a Penal-dumbness: God silenced his Tongue, because he suspended his Faith: But this latter was a dutiful-Dumbness; such a Dumbness as Faith hath caused in the Soul; which shut up his lips, from murmuring, not from praying, Psal. 39.9. he prays there, — I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; and yet — Take thy Plague from me, I am consumed by the stroke of thy hand, &c.

Wee read indeed Zacharie was dumb; but Infidelity struck him dumb. — David saith here — hee was dumb, but Faith struck him dumb. The former was a Penal-dumbness: God silenced his Tongue, because hee suspended his Faith: But this latter was a dutiful-Dumbness; such a Dumbness as Faith hath caused in the Soul; which shut up his lips, from murmuring, not from praying, Psal. 39.9. hee praies there, — I was dumb, and opened not my mouth; and yet — Take thy Plague from mee, I am consumed by the stroke of thy hand, &c.

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The like power of Faith you see in the case of Aaron, when it silenced his Soul, in such a sad condition, Levit. 10.3, 4. — And Moses said unto him, This is that, the Lord said, &c. And Aaron held his peace. Why, what was his trial? why it was the loss of his Sons, the loss of his Eldest Sons, when they were young, and without posterity; in the first day of their Ministration; in the sight of all the Congregation, and by so fearful a Judgement, as fire from the Lord; and in the act of their sin, offering strange fire: Nay, and which (some think) was joined with Drunkenness too: whereupon immediately follows the prohibition of Wine. So that the Congregation might suspect, they went but from fire to fire; from a destruction by fire, to a preservation in fire; from a temporal, to an eternal burning.

The like power of Faith you see in the case of Aaron, when it silenced his Soul, in such a sad condition,

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