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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.
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.
It was the speech of Chrysostom—Ego sic censeo, sic assiduè praedicabo, &c.—I thus think, and thus will I ever preach, that It is more bitter to sin against Christ, than to Suffer the Torments of Hell.
It was the speech of Chrysostome—Ego sic censeo, sic assiduè praedicabo, &c.—I thus think, and thus will I ever preach, that It is more bitter to sin against Christ, than to Suffer the Torments of Hell.
Anselm saith,—That if on the one side were presented unto him the Evil of sin, and on the other side the Torments of Hell; he would rather choose to fall into Hell, than to fall into sin—At such a distance were their hearts set against sin: And nothing more ordinary than such expressions as these from the Saints, in temptations, in troubles of spirit, or in clearing their own hearts—Rather ⟨p. 11⟩slay me,—Rather Damn me,—Rather cast me into Hell, than let me sin against thee &c.