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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 is a sin-starving-Grace. But though it starve the flesh, it fattens the spirit. It is a soul-fattening-Grace; which it doth after this manner.
It is a sin-starving-Grace. But though it starve the flesh, it fattens the spirit. It is a soul-fatning-Grace; which it doth after this manner.
First Preparatory way.1 1. By a Negative way. By destroying Soul-consuming, soul-destroying, soul-pining ⟨p. 100⟩lusts and corruptions, which will hinder out spiritual fattening.
First Preparatory way.1 1. By a Negative way. By destroying Soul-consuming, soul-destroying, soul-pining ⟨p. 100⟩lusts and corruptions, which will hinder out spiritual fatning.
- 11. Per modum removendi.
Men use to purge, before they go to fatten. Faith must give the soul a purge: otherwise the soul would never thrive; though the pasture be never so good. If there be corruptions in the soul unpurged, the soul will never grow and thrive.
Men use to purge, before they go to fatten. Faith must give the soul a purge: otherwise the soul would never thrive; though the pasture bee never so good. If there bee corruptions in the soul unpurged, the soul will never grow and thrive.