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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.
It is a Soul-Securing-Grace. Nothing else will secure you but believing. Build as many Towers of succour as you can; Raise up as many Castles of strength, as your provisions will reach: yet all these are but Castles in the Air; there's no foundation for them, nor shelter in them. Beat, and cast out as many Anchors as you can; yet you will but Anchor on the waves; you shall never find a bottom to rest on, to secure your souls from trouble.
It is a Soul-Securing-Grace. Nothing else will secure you but beleeving. Build as many Towers of succour as you can; Raise up as many Castles of strength, as your provisions will reach: yet all these are but Castles in the Air; there's no foundation for them, nor shelter in them. Beat, and cast out as many Anchors as you can; yet you will but Anchor on the waves; you shall never finde a bottom to rest on, to secure your souls from trouble.
All the provisions in the Creature; All that thy power, thy Policy can do, and find out, will not compass thee with safety, if thou do not trust. There is nothing doth secure the Soul, and set the Soul out of danger; but a Resolved-Trust. And no Trust, but a Trust in God.
All the provisions in the Creature; All that thy power, thy Policy can do, and finde out, will not compass thee with safety, if thou do not trust. There is nothing doth secure the Soul, and set the Soul out of danger; but a Resolved-Trust. And no Trust, but a Trust in God.
1. Not a Trust in Riches. — The Rich mans wealth is his strong City: but it's so in his conceit only; it is weak.