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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.
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.
And, my Brethren, you had need of Faith. As the Apostle said of Patience: So I of Faith: — You have need of Faith. As you walk in the way of this life, you shall meet with such things as will move you, as will put you besides your selves: If Faith do not settle and compose you; you cannot be undique sursùm (like a Dye) light upon your square: if Faith be not your bottom.
And, my Brethren, you had need of Faith. As the Apostle said of Patience: So I of Faith: — You have need of Faith. As you walk in the way of this life, you shall meet with such things as will move you, as will put you besides your selves: If Faith do not settle and compose you; you cannot bee undique sursùm (like a Dye) light upon your square: if Faith bee not your bottom.