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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.
1. Consectary.
1. If sin be the Greatest Evil in the world;1 Then let us fall down and admire the Wisdom of God; and adore the Goodness of God, who, out of the Greatest Evil, could bring the Greatest Good: who makes the Greatest Evil, an Occasion of the Greatest Good that ever was wrought.
- 11. Consectary.
Bernard was so taken up with the thoughts of it, that he saith,— Foelix Culpa, quae talem meruit Redemptorem!—Happy fault, which occasioned such a Redeemer!
We should be humbled for the fault, & bless God for the Remedy; and withal, admire that wisdom and that goodness, which hath taken occasion by mans wickedness, to declare his own goodness; by mans sin, to make known and express the infiniteness of his wisdom, power, mercy, justice, &c. That this should be an occasion to draw out all his Glorious Attributes: That he should bring Good out of Evil, Life out of Death, Heaven out of Hell, Good out of sin, Cordials out of Poison.