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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. Consectary.
2. Hence conclude then, That it is the Saddest punishment, 1the Fearfullest judgement in the world, To be given up to sin. This is the utmost punishment that God inflicteth upon men; and therefore the Greatest of all Punishments.
2. Hence conclude then, That it is the Saddest punishment, 1the Fearfullest judgement in the world, To be given up to sin. This is the utmost punishment that God insticteth upon men; and therefore the Greatest of all Punishments.
- 12. Consectary.
God doth usually proceed by Degrees, in the ways of his judgements: first, he begins with lesser; if lesser will not do, then he proceeds to greater, he will punish yet Seven times more; and still the further he goes, the greater are his strokes.