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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.
3. From the rewards which God hath promised to obedience. And these rewards Faith makes use of, to quicken and stir up the soul to Obedience; to be spurs and incentives to us, as they were to Moses, who — had an eye to the recompense of the Reward; as they were to Christ himself; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the Cross, and despised the shame, Heb. 12.2, and Heb. 11.26. All which have a mighty influence into the soul, to enable and quicken it to Obedience.
3. From the rewards which God hath promised to obedience. And these rewards Faith makes use of, to quicken and stir up the soul to Obedience; to bee spurs and incentives to us, as they were to Moses, who — had an eye to the recompence of the Reward; as they were to Christ himself; who for the joy that was set before him, endured the Cross, and despised the shame, Heb. 12.2, and Heb. 11.26. All which have a mighty influence into the soul, to inable and quicken it to Obedience.
2. Faith enables the Soul to suffer. Yea, and to suffer the sufferings of the greatest magnitude. You see, Heb. 11. — Through Faith they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were slain with the sword.
2. Faith inables the Soul to suffer. Yea, and to suffer the sufferings of the greatest magnitude. You see, Heb. 11. — Through Faith they were stoned, they were sawn asunder, were slain with the sword.