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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.
Though sometimes Believers may have such a Peace as may overcome all doubts, fears, troubles, &c. yet ordinarily their Peace is not so high. There is doubting as well as confidence; fear as well as Faith; trouble as well as Peace.
Though sometimes Beleevers may have such a Peace as may overcome all doubts, fears, troubles, &c. yet ordinarily their Peace is not so high. There is doubting as well as confidence; fear as well as Faith; trouble as well as Peace.
The Peace of the godly here is a peace joined with war. Our inward Peace is joined with inward War, war against sin and corruption. It is such a Peace as doth not consist in freedom from war; but in an actual warring: The Flesh still lusting against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh. And, till this great Make-ba•e be taken away, till sin be destroyed, we must look for no perfect Peace.
The Peace of the godly here is a peace joyned with war. Our inward Peace is joyned with inward War, war against sin and corruption. It is such a Peace as doth not consist in freedome from war; but in an actual warring: The Flesh still lusting against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh. And, till this great Make-ba•e bee taken away, till sin bee destroyed, wee must look for no perfect Peace.
2. But secondly. You say; Believers want Peace. It may be they do: They want the sense of Peace, but not the ground of Peace. They have the ground of Peace, interest in Christ, Reconciliation with God, Justification, pardon of sin, Sanctification; although for present, they want the sense of Peace, the clear apprehensions of all this to their Souls.