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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.
3. Sometimes from the end of Gods dealings.
1. In general. And that is for good; though it be not bonum, yet it is in bonum: Though it be not good, yet it is for good. It is a Chastising-mercy: not in vindictive-Justice.
1. In general. And that is for good; though it be not bonum, yet it is in bonum: Though it bee not good, yet it is for good. It is a Chastising-mercy: not in vindictive-Justice.
There is a Misericordia-puniens: and there is a Justitia-parcens▪ A punishing-Mercy, and a sparing-Justice.
As God doth exercise his Sparing-Justice towards the wicked, when he suffers them to go on in sin; and doth not punish them, as we read, Hos. 4 14. — I will not punish your Daughters when they commit Whoredom; nor your Spouses, when they commit Adultery. the like,