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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.
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.
3. Nay, they have apprehended sin a Greater evil than Death—Basil speaks of a Rich Virgin, who being condemned to the fire, and sentenced to lose her estate, because she would not Worship Idols; yet afterward was promised life and restitution of estate, if she would; She replied,—Valeat vita, Pereat Pecunia—Farewell life, let money perish. Look through the Ten Bloody Persecutions, and our Late Marian-days, and you shall find many instances to this purpose.
3. Nay, they have apprehended sin a Greater evil than Death—Basil speaks of a Rich Virgin, who being condemned to the fire, and sentenced to lose her estate, because she would not Worship Idols; yet afterward was promised life and restitution of estate, if she would; She replyed,—Valeat vita, Pereat Pecunia—Farewel life, let money perish. Look through the Ten Bloody Persecutions, and our Late Marian-days, and you shall finde many instances to this purpose.
4. Nay, yet further, They have not only apprehended sin a Greater Evil than Death, but yet more, A Greater Evil than Hell it self.
4. Nay, yet further, They have not onely apprehended sin a Greater Evil than Death, but yet more, A Greater Evil than Hell it self.