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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.
There may be godliness without Peace, for a time; but there can be no Peace without godliness. As Jehu said to Jehoram, — What Peace? so long as the Whoredoms of thy Mother, and her Witchcrafts be so many? So I say to you. What Peace?
There may bee godlinesse without Peace, for a time; but there can bee no Peace without godlinesse. As Jehu said to Jehoram, — What Peace? so long as the Whoredomes of thy Mother, and her Witchcrafts bee so many? So I say to you. What Peace?
— There is no Peace, saith my God to the wicked, Isa. 57.21.
1. They have no Peace with God: God is their enemy.
2. They have no Peace with Conscience: that is full of storms: as one said of Jonah, ubi peccatum, ibi procella: Where sin is, there is a storm. A sinful Conscience, is a stormy Conscience: though for the present it is quiet: yet it is like a Book bound up, wherein, if ever it be unclasped, if ever it be opened; nothing but hellish Tragedies will appear.