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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.
The Story tells us, That being driven out of all he had, he was content, rather than sin, to betake himself to a Poor Trade, to be a Weaver, to get bread to maintain his wife and children. Afterwards, being cast out of that way, the world looking upon it as too good for him, he betook himself to work with a Spade in the Common Ditch of the Town, to get his living. He could down with any condition, rather than sin.
Nay, they have not only apprehended sin a Greater Evil than Poverty: But,
Nay, they have not onely apprehended sin a Greater Evil than Poverty: But,
2. Greater than Prisons, greater than Death it self. It was the speech of Ambrose,—Vultis in vincula rapere? Vultis in Mortem? Voluptas est mihi:—Will you cast me into Prison? will you take away my life? All this is desirable to me, rather than to sin.
2. Greater than Prisons, greater than Death it self. It was the speech of Ambrose,—Vultis in vincula rapere? Vultis in Mortem? Voluptas est mihi:—Will you cast me into Prison? will you take away my life? All this is desireable to me, rather than to sin.