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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.
Paul went through many tribulations, endured a great deal of sufferings (as you may read 2 Cor. 11, 23, 24, 25. at large) yet all these Scourges, these Prisons and Persecutions, did not go so much to his heart, as sin, even the presence, though not the power of sin. Though he suffered much, yet we do not read, that ever he cried, OH! for all; And yet he doth for Sin, OH! miserable man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of sin!—So Peter, Manasseh, &c.
Paul went through many tribulations, endured a great deal of sufferings (as you may read 2 Cor. 11, 23, 24, 25. at large) yet all these Scourges, these Prisons and Persecutions, did not go so much to his heart, as sin, even the presence, though not the power of sin. Though he suffered much, yet we do not read, that ever he cryed, OH! for all; And yet he doth for Sin, OH! miserable man that I am! who shall deliver me from this body of sin!—So Peter, Manasseh, &c.
2. Their sufferings to avoid sin. Daniel was content to be thrown into the Den of Lyons, the three Children into the Fire, Paul and Silas into the Stocks; and many of Gods people have chosen to embrace Prisons, Stakes, Fire, and the hottest Persecutions, rather than sin.
Which doth plainly evidence to us, They esteemed Sin the Greatest Evil.