A28620:1686
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.
We have a passage worth observation, 2 Sam. 20. from vers. 16. to 23. Joab besieged Abel, and threatened war. A woman cries out from the City, to know the cause. He returns her answer. — There was one Sheba the son of Bichri, who was a traitor to the King. Cast his head over the Wall, and all shall be at Peace; which done, Joab, and all Israel retired every man to his tent, and there was a Peace.
Wee have a passage worth observation, 2 Sam. 20. from vers. 16. to 23. Joab besieged Abel, and threatned war. A woman cryes out from the City, to know the cause. Hee returns her answer. — There was one Sheba the son of Bichri, who was a traitor to the King. Cast his head over the Wall, and all shall bee at Peace; which done, Joab, and all Israel retired every man to his tent, and there was a Peace.
Thus God doth oftentimes besiege one of his own Subjects, because they harbour some secret Traitor▪ some close lust and corruption. And therefore it would be our wisdom to inquire and find out the Traitor: to yield up our sins, and God will be at Peace with us; whereas otherwise God will never be at Peace with him, who is at Peace with his lusts; nor spare him, that spares his sin.
Thus God doth oftentimes besiege one of his own Subjects, because they harbour some secret Traitor▪ some close lust and corruption. And therefore it would bee our wisdome to inquire and finde out the Traitor: to yeeld up our sins, and God will bee at Peace with us; whereas otherwise God will never bee at Peace with him, who is at Peace with his lusts; nor spare him, that spares his sin.