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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 Faith doth not only take up humbling Considerations, and Realizeth all these to the Soul. But Faith makes all this present. Faith doth give a present being to all this. Hence Heb. 11.13. Faith embraceth the promise. The word is [Greek or Hebrew]. — Faith kisseth the promise; gives a present being to the promise.
3 Faith doth not only take up humbling Considerations, and Realizeth all these to the Soul. But Faith makes all this present. Faith doth give a present being to all this. Hence Heb. 11.13. Faith imbraceth the promise. The word is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. — Faith kisseth the promise; gives a present being to the promise.
And as it gives a present being to the promise, or word of comfort: so to the threatening and word of terror. Faith discovers death and hell, and all at hand for Sin. Faith looks upon sin, in all it's Dooms-day apparel, and array: smells fire and Brimstone in sin.
And as it gives a present being to the promise, or word of comfort: so to the threatning and word of terror. Faith discovers death and hell, and all at hand for Sin. Faith looks upon sinne, in all it's Doomes-day apparrel, and array: smels fire and Brimstone in sin.
Whereas unbelievers, they look on these things at the wrong end of the Prospective, and that makes things near, seem a far off, and that afar off, is not seen at all.