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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. 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.
3. Wee can do nothing to settle a sound and substantial Peace in our Consciences: though wee skin them over for a time, calm and still them for a time; yet wee cannot work a sound cure, nor settle a substantial Peace there.
4. We can do nothing, which may purchase any blessing or favour from God. 1