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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.
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.
1. Greater than Poverty; which yet is a great evil. Melius est ⟨p. 10⟩Panem mendicare, quam Fidem perdere. Better to Beg, saith one, than to sin,—Heb. 11.24. to the 28.—Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the Pleasures of sin for a season. The like of that Christian-Moses Galcacius Caracciolus, who was a Noble Prince and Marquess, who yet, that he might not sin, left and forsook all he had, and betook himself to live meanly with the people of God, merely to enjoy the Ordinances. And Musculus, a man of excellent Learning, and a famous Divine, who rather than sin, would close with any condition.
1. Greater than Poverty; which yet is a great evil. Melius est ⟨p. 10⟩Panem mendicare, quam Fidem perdere. Better to Beg, saith one, than to sin,—Heb. 11.24. to the 28.—Moses chose rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the Pleasures of sin for a season. The like of that Christian-Moses Galcacius Caracciolus, who was a Noble Prince and Marquess, who yet, that he might not sin, left and forsook all he had, and betook himself to live meanly with the people of God, meerly to enjoy the Ordinances. And Musculus, a man of excellent Learning, and a famous Divine, who rather than sin, would close with any condition.