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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.
If you by unbelief, do slight all the threats of God denounced against sin, if you make child's play of them, as the word signifies, 2 Pet. 3.3.
If you by unbelief, do slight all the threats of God denounced against sin, if you make childs play of them, as the word signifies, 2 Pet. 3.3.
If you look upon these but as Bug-bears, things to keep men in awe, and not real things: No marvel if you be not Humbled.
If you look upon these but as Bug-bears, things to keep men in awe, and not real things: No marvel if you bee not Humbled.
But, if by Faith you would Realize these things to your selves, and behold them not as Fancies, and sad dreams, but such things as are infallibly true, real things, not as painted Hell, painted fire, but as real: you would them find them to work; These mingled with Faith, would lay a man in the dust. Now this is a property of Faith, to Realize the Object, or thing believed; and hence comes an influence on the soul, to humble and abase it.
But, if by Faith you would Realize these things to your selves, and behold them not as Fancies, and sad dreams, but such things as are infallibly true, real things, not as painted Hell, painted fire, but as reall: you would them finde them to work; These mingled with Faith, would lay a man in the dust. Now this is a property of Faith, to Realize the Object, or thing beleeved; and hence comes an influence on the soul, to humble and abase it.