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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.
The like of Cyprian, who being desired to consult with himself, before he should suffer,1 replies. — Do your office. In so just a thing as this there needs no Consultation.
The like of Cyprian, who being desired to consult with himself, before hee should suffer,1 replies. — Do your office. In so just a thing as this there needs no Consultation.
- 1Fac quod tibi praeceptum est.
The like of that rich Virgin which Basil speak of; who being condemned to the fire, was offered her life and estate, if she would renounce her Faith; she returns Valeat vita, pereat pecunia, &c. Let my money perish, my life cannot: and though I lose this life, I shall have a more enduring, a more abiding, a more abounding life in Christ.
The like of that rich Virgin which Basil speak of; who being condemned to the fire, was offered her life and estate, if she would renounce her Faith; shee returns Valeat vita, pereat pecunia, &c. Let my mony perish, my life cannot: and though I lose this life, I shall have a more enduring, a more abiding, a more abounding life in Christ.
To these many more might be added, to show how Faith doth furnish the Soul with suffering Resolutions, as that of Chrysostom, ⟨p. 95⟩who said — if you take away my goods, &c.