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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.
2. Another comes and tells him, — Fire from Heaven had burnt up his Sheep.
3. A third tells him, — The Chaldeans had taken away his Camels.
3. A third tells him, — The Caldeans had taken away his Camels.
4. A fourth he comes and tells him, — His Sons and his Daughters were eating and drinking, and a wind blew down the house on their heads; and buried them all in one grave. His whole stock was lost in one day. Nay, He lost not his stock of Cattle only, but of his Children also.
4. A fourth hee comes and tells him, — His Sons and his Daughters were eating and drinking, and a wind blew down the house on their heads; and buried them all in one grave. His whole stock was lost in one day. Nay, Hee lost not his stock of Cattel only, but of his Children also.
My Brethren these were great trials, enough to put a man out of patience; enough to make the most composed man besides himself: