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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.
Such a Grace as doth not only humble us, but soften us: not only break us,1 but melt us. In the Law it humbles us, it breaks us: but the heart like a flint, every dust still retains its flinty, stony Nature, is a stone. And therefore in the Gospel it melts us, it dissolves us. Thunders of Sinai terrify, but Dews of Zion mollify.
Such a Grace as doth not only humble us, but soften us: not only break us,1 but melt us. In the Law it humbles us, it breaks us: but the heart like a flint, every dust still reteins its flinty, stony Nature, is a stone. And therefore in the Gospel it melts us, it dissolves us. Thunders of Sinai terrifie, but Dews of Sion mollifie.
- 17. Royalty of Faith. Its an Heart-softening-Grace.
So much Faith, so much Sorrow, they are like the Fountain and the Stream, whereof the one ariseth no higher than the other. So much Faith and apprehension of Mercy: so much brokenness of spirit for sin.
Where Unbelief doth stony the Heart, harden the Heart, dries up the spring and issues of sorrow. No Heart is so hard as an Unbelieving-heart: neither the Promises, nor Threatenings; neither Mercy, nor Justice; neither Word, nor works will melt it: Faith on the contrary turns the Soul into Water; dissolves a man into tears; opens all the deep springs of sorrow in the Soul.
Where Unbelief doth stony the Heart, harden the Heart, dries up the spring and issues of sorrow. No Heart is so hard as an Unbeleeving-heart: neither the Promises, nor Threatnings; neither Mercy, nor Justice; neither Word, nor works will melt it: Faith on the contrary turns the Soul into Water; dissolves a man into tears; opens all the deep springs of sorrow in the Soul.