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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.
1. A Peace they have; but it is a false Peace. And a true war is better than a false Peace.
2. A Peace they have: but it is not the Peace of God, rather the Peace of the Devil. — The strong man keeps the house, and therefore all is at Peace.
3. A Peace they have, but it is but an outward Peace: not an inward Peace. — The heart knows its own bitterness — even in the midst of laughter, the heart is sorrowful; when the Countenance is full of cheer, the Conscience is full of woe.
3. A Peace they have, but it is but an outward Peace: not an inward Peace. — The heart knows its own bitterness — even in the midst of laughter, the heart is sorrowfull; when the Countenance is full of chear, the Conscience is full of woe.
As the godly have often the Pearl of Joy in the Heart, when the dew of tears is in their eyes: so the wicked