The dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in several treatisesThe dead saint speaking to saints and sinners living in severall treatises

1. We can do nothing to please God: our best works, but [Greek or Hebrew]: The Gift of an Enemy: The Sacrifice of Fools. — They, that are in the flesh, cannot please God.

1. Wee can do nothing to please God: our best works, but 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: The Gift of an Enemy: The Sacrifice of Fools. — They, that are in the flesh, cannot please God.

2. We can do nothing, which is truly, really, and substantially Good. What Nathaniel spake doubtingly concerning Christ, Joh. 1.46. — Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? may peremptorily be here affirmed. No good can come out of an evil heart. No good fruit from a bad root. — Do men gather Grapes of Thorns? or Figs of Thistles? — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? It's impossible.

2. Wee can do nothing, which is truly, really, and substantially Good. What Nathaniel spake doubtingly concerning Christ, Joh. 1.46. — Can there any good thing come out of Nazaret? may preremptorily bee here affirmed. No good can come out of an evil heart. No good fruit from a bad root. — Do men gather Grapes of Thorns? or Figs of Thistles? — Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? It's impossible.

3. We can do nothing to settle a sound and substantial Peace in our Consciences: though we skin them over for a time, calm and still them for a time; yet we cannot work a sound cure, nor settle a substantial Peace there.