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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.
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.
When Eudoxia the Empress threatened Chrysostom, whom she afterward banished. He sends to her, Go tell her, saith he—Nil, nisi Peccatum, timeo—I fear nothing in the world but sin.
When Eudoxia the Empress threatned Chrysostome, whom she afterward banished. He sends to her, Go tell her, saith he—Nil, nisi Peccatum, timeo—I fear nothing in the world but sin.