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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.
It puts a man upon Prayer, Holy exercises, Communion with God; which are noble Employments, above the World. Faith makes the soul live high, above the World, above the Earth. Faith carries the soul to Heaven, makes it live were it had its First breath, and being, makes our way to lye above, our Conversation to be in Heaven, our joys to be there, our affections there, our hearts there. — By Faith Enoch walked with God; he conversed with God, had to do with God daily, the great God of Heaven and Earth daily in supplications and meditations, and holy conversation. All which are noble employments. The higher the person we have to do withal, the more noble are the employments.
It puts a man upon Prayer, Holy exercises, Communion with God; which are noble Imployments, above the World. Faith makes the soul live high, above the World, above the Earth. Faith carries the soul to Heaven, makes it live were it had its First breath, and being, makes our way to lye above, our Conversation to bee in Heaven, our joyes to bee there, our affections there, our hearts there. — By Faith Enoch walked with God; hee conversed with God, had to do with God daily, the great God of Heaven and Earth daily in supplications and meditations, and holy conversation. All which are noble imployments. The higher the person wee have to do withall, the more noble are the imployments.
And they are such as do in-noble the Soul. No man hath to do with God in any way, but he is in-nobled by it. — Moses face shone, when he had been conversing with God. God doth shed ⟨p. 98⟩Glory upon all those, who have to do with him. None have to do with a glorious God, but are made glorious. None with an Holy God, but are made holy. If you have to do with him in Prayer, or any of his Ordinances, he sends you still better away.
And they are such as do in-noble the Soul. No man hath to do with God in any way, but hee is in-nobled by it. — Moses face shone, when hee had been conversing with God. God doth shed ⟨p. 98⟩