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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 sets our performances above others. Our prayers, our duties, our obedience. Faith raises them above others, Heb. 11.4. — By Faith Abel offered to God a more excellent Sacrifice than Cain. Cain offered Sacrifice as well as Abel: but Faith put the difference betwixt them. — By Faith he offered a more excellent, a more noble Sacrifice than Cain.
2. Faith sets our performances above others. Our prayers, our duties, our obedience. Faith raises them above others, Heb. 11.4. — By Faith Abel offered to God a more excellent Sacrifice than Cain. Cain offered Sacrifice as well as Abel: but Faith put the difference betwixt them. — By Faith hee offered a more excellent, a more noble Sacrifice than Cain.
Faith puts a difference betwixt the works of Christians, and the works of Heathens. Though there were no difference for the matter, yet Faith puts a vast difference for the manner.
Faith puts a difference betwixt the Abba-Fathers of a Child, of a Saint: and the Ave-Maries, of a superstitious Papist: betwixt the Prayers of a Saint, and the Devotions of a sinner: betwixt the cries of a Saint, and the howlings of an Hypocrite. But to return.
Faith puts a difference betwixt the Abba-Fathers of a Childe, of a Saint: and the Ave-Maries, of a superstitious Papist: betwixt the Prayers of a Saint, and the Devotions of a sinner: betwixt the cryes of a Saint, and the howlings of an Hypocrite. But to return.