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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. Faith begets suffering graces, courage, magnanimity, patience, humility, self-denial, contempt of the World, high prizing of God. It sets God above all the comforts and contentments in Heaven and Earth, It gives adherence to the Truth; by which the Soul is enabled to undergo any thing.
3. Faith begets suffering graces, courage, magnanimity, patience, humility, self-denyal, contempt of the World, high prizing of God. It sets God above all the comforts and contentments in Heaven and Earth, It gives adherence to the Truth; by which the Soul is inabled to undergo any thing.
4. It lays in suffering-strength: strength from God, strength from the Promise, which saith — When thou passest through the water, it shall not overflow thee, when thou passest through the fire, it shall not kindle upon thee, &c. Isa. 43.2. It fetcheth strength from Christ, who like Simon of Cyrene, helps to bear part of every Cross.
4. It laies in suffering-strength: strength from God, strength from the Promise, which saith — When thou passest through the water, it shall not overflow thee, when thou passest through the fire, it shall not kindle upon thee, &c. Isa. 43.2. It fetcheth strength from Christ, who like Simon of Cyrene, helps to bear part of every Cross.
Thus Faith goes out of it self; stands upon another's bottom; leans upon another's power; rests upon another's strength, whereby the Soul is enabled to go through any thing. All this is conveyed by this Instrument of Faith.