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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. It puts the soul into a suffering frame. It deadens a mans heart to the world, mortifies a man to to the world, and makes a man alive to God.
A man dead to the world doth not much care either to leave the world, or any thing in the world: now Faith deadens a mans heart to the World.
1. Faith puts the Judgement into a right frame. It makes the Judgement lightly to esteem of earthly, and highly to esteem of Heavenly things: lightly to esteem the favours and frowns of ⟨p. 94⟩men, highly to value the favour, and fear the frowns of God.
2. Faith prevails with the Will; to choose God above all; and to part with all, the leave all, if they come in competition with God. This Faith doth habitually, in habitual preparations in the work of Grace, when first the Will chooseth with Christ. Thus Faith enables the soul to do actually, when ever it is brought to trial.