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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.
Faith is the great Task-Master of the Soul. But it is not like Pharaohs Task-Master, to command burdens, and afford no help: To require the Tale of Brick, and give no Straw. This indeed the Law doth. It is an hard Task-Master. It commands; but gives no ability.1
- 1Jubet; fed non juvat. Efficit quod imperat. Jubet & juvat.
But not so Faith. It commands, and lays in strength to do. It gives what it commands; by going over to Christ, and fetching strength from him; whereby the soul is enabled to obey what it is commanded.
But not so Faith. It commands, and laies in strength to do. It gives what it commands; by going over to Christ, and fetching strength from him; whereby the soul is inabled to obey what it is commanded.
It is said of Christ, That — His Government shall be upon his shoulders: Not only in his hand having a Sceptre only to command, but upon his shoulders, wherein there is support to obey commands. So it may be said of Faith, which governeth from Christ, and by Christ, Its Government is upon its shoulder; enabling the soul to do what it commands.
It is said of Christ, That — His Government shall bee upon his shoulders: Not only in his hand having a Scepter only to command, but upon his shoulders, wherein there is support to obey commands. So it may bee said of Faith, which governeth from Christ, and by Christ, Its Government is upon its shoulder; inabling the soul to do what it commands.