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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.
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.
Faith is an Heart-in-nobling-Grace.
1. It begets in us Soul-in-nobling-Principles. Principles like our selves. It is such a Grace as doth sublimate a man, begets high, glorious, and heavenly Principles in the soul. By this we are — made partakers of the divine nature. It is an Heart-spiritualizing-Grace.