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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.
But Faith looks upon them through the right end of the prospective; And there things a far off, are seen at hand, present. Hence it is called — The Evidence of things not seen. As it was said of Abraham — He saw the day of Christ, and rejoiced: and yet Abraham was dead many hundred of years before Christ: yet by virtue of his prospective, by virtue of his Faith, he saw it, as if it had been present, though it were never so far off: So here though the second day of Christ, the day of judgement be a ⟨p. 80⟩far off; yet Faith sees it, and is humbled; Faith gives it a present Being.
But Faith looks upon them through the right end of the prospective; And there things a far off, are seen at hand, present. Hence it is called — The Evidence of things not seen. As it was said of Abraham — Hee saw the day of Christ, and rejoyced: and yet Abraham was dead many hundred of years before Christ: yet by vertue of his prospective, by vertue of his Faith, hee saw it, as if it had been present, though it were never so far off: So here though the second day of Christ, the day of judgement bee a ⟨p. 80⟩far off; yet Faith sees it, and is humbled; Faith gives it a present Being.
4. Faith applies and brings home all this to Soul. As the word of Comfort, the Promise is applied, and brought home to the Soul by Faith: so the word of Terror, the Threatening is brought home to the soul by the same Faith; by which the Soul is cast down and humbled.
4. Faith applies and brings home all this to Soul. As the word of Comfort, the Promise is applyed, and brought home to the Soul by Faith: so the word of Terror, the Threatning is brought home to the soul by the same Faith; by which the Soul is cast down and humbled.