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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.
2. Faith doth furnish the soul with suffering Resolutions. A believing heart is a resolved heart. Nothing causeth a suspension in the Will more than Unbelief. He that doubteth is like a wave of the Sea, sometimes going this way, and sometimes carried back again. Whereas Faith doth resolve the heart, makes the soul resolve as Peter, but in a better strength, — I will dye, rather than deny thee.
2. Faith doth furnish the soul with suffering Resolutions. A beleeving heart is a resolved heart. Nothing causeth a suspension in the Will more than Unbeleef. Hee that doubteth is like a wave of the Sea, sometimes going this way, and sometimes carried back again. Whereas Faith doth resolve the heart, makes the soul resolve as Peter, but in a better strength, — I will dye, rather than deny thee.
Faith doth clothe the soul with suffering resolutions, to go through a Sea, through a Wilderness, through the hottest Skirmishes, the hardest Trials for Christ. You see it every where in Scripture. In Michaiah, in Jeremiah, in the three Children, in Daniel, in the Apostles. And to these I might add many more. As that of old Polycarp; when he was persuaded to deny Christ, rather than to dye for Christ. 1— These fourscore and six years I have served Christ; and he hath never hurt me all this time, and how then can I blaspheme my King and Saviour?
Faith doth cloathe the soul with suffering resolutions, to go through a Sea, through a Wilderness, through the hottest Skirmishes, the hardest Tryals for Christ. You see it every where in Scripture. In Michaiah, in Jeremiah, in the three Children, in Daniel, in the Apostles. And to these I might adde many more. As that of old Polycarp; when hee was perswaded to deny Christ, rather than to dye for Christ. 1— These fourscore and six years I have served Christ; and hee hath never hurt mee all this time, and how then can I blaspheme my King and Saviour?