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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.
5. Not able to perfect it, when it is begun to our hands, — Isa. 26.12. — Lord, thou hast wrought all our works in us, or for us. So Rom. 7.18. — To will is present with me; but how to perform that which is good, I find not.
5. Not able to perfect it, when it is begun to our hands, — Isa. 26.12. — Lord, thou hast wrought all our works in us, or for us. So Rom. 7.18. — To will is present with mee; but how to perform that which is good, I finde not.
There is a partial impotency in the hearts of the best; and this is more or less according to the vigour and power of corruption in us. As you see in Rom. 7.18. For I know, that in me (that is, in my flesh) dwells no good thing, for to will is present, but not to perform.
There is a partial impotency in the hearts of the best; and this is more or less according to the vigor and power of corruption in us. As you see in Rom. 7.18. For I know, that in mee (that is, in my flesh) dwels no good thing, for to will is present, but not to perform.
But there is a total universal impotency in unregenerate men — Every Imagination, motion, figment of his heart being evil, only evil, every day.