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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.
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.
Thus Faith goes out of it self; stands upon anothers bottome; leans upon anothers power; rests upon anothers strength, whereby the Soul is inabled to go thorow any thing. All this is conveyed by this Instrument of Faith.
5. It propounds to the Soul suffering rewards. That — For these light afflictions which are but for a moment, we shall receive a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.
5. It propounds to the Soul suffering rewards. That — For these light afflictions which are but for a moment, wee shall receive a far more exceeding and eternal weight of Glory.