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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.
Whereas unbelief doth slay and disable the heart, both from doing and suffering. An unbelieving heart is an impotent heart. The state of unbelief is a state of impotency and disability; to the performance of any thing, that is good. There is a total, and universal ⟨p. 92⟩impotency in an unbelieving heart. He cannot pray, hear, receive.
Whereas unbeleef doth slay and disable the heart, both from doing and suffering. An unbeleeving heart is an impotent heart. The state of unbeleef is a state of impotency and disability; to the performance of any thing, that is good. There is a total, and universal ⟨p. 92⟩impotency in an unbeleeving heart. Hee cannot pray, hear, receive.
Faith, on the contrary doth enable and strengthen the soul to all Obedience. It enables a man to yield.
Faith, on the contrary doth inable and strengthen the soul to all Obedience. It inables a man to yeeld.
A willing Obedience, cheerful Obedience, voluntary Obedience; a constant, a fruitful, an universal Obedience. It will enable a man to do his duty, Towards God, Towards others,
A willing Obedience, cheerfull Obedience, voluntary Obedience; a constant, a fruitful, an universal Obedience. It will inable a man to do his duty, Towards God, Towards others,