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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.
My Brethren these were great trials, enough to put a man out of patience; enough to make the most composed man besides himself: ⟨p. 72⟩To lose his goods, his Cattle, his Substance, and all in a day: Nay, to lose his Sons and his Daughters, which were his whole Posterity, the stay and hope of his Family: yea and all at once, at one clap: and that so suddenly; yea, and in the midst of their merriments.
My Brethren these were great trials, enough to put a man out of patience; enough to make the most composed man besides himself: ⟨p. 72⟩To lose his goods, his Cattel, his Substance, and all in a day: Nay, to lose his Sons and his Daughters, which were his whole Posterity, the stay and hope of his Family: yea and all at once, at one clap: and that so suddenly; yea, and in the midst of their merriments.
These were great Trials: where Yesterday it might have been said, who so rich as Job? now to day, who so poor as Job?
These were great Tryals: where Yesterday it might have been said, who so rich as Job? now to day, who so poor as Job?
Yet mark here now the Power of Faith; how it silenced the Soul. In stead of murmuring, he fell down, and worshipped and said, The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away. Blessed be the Name of the Lord. Thus you see the Power of Faith.
Yet mark here now the Power of Faith; how it silenced the Soul. In stead of murmuring, hee fell down, and worshiped and said, The Lord hath given, the Lord hath taken away. Blessed bee the Name of the Lord. Thus you see the Power of Faith.