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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.
But there is a total universal impotency in unregenerate men — Every Imagination, motion, figment of his heart being evil, only evil, every day.
But admit we could do any thing; could make as many prayers, as stars in Heaven; weep as many tears, as the Sea holds drops; Nay could we do as much as the tallest Angel in Heaven: all this would be too short to wind us out of our misery, that sin casts us into.
But admit wee could do any thing; could make as many prayers, as stars in Heaven; weep as many tears, as the Sea holds drops; Nay could wee do as much as the tallest Angel in Heaven: all this would be too short to winde us out of our misery, that sin casts us into.
2. We are not able to suffer, and by our sufferings to help our selves out of this. If we should macerate and afflict our bodies; suffer all the miseries in the world in way of satisfaction for the least sin: Alas! all would be too little, too short, would not amount and come up to the least debt.
2. Wee are not able to suffer, and by our sufferings to help our selves out of this. If wee should macerate and afflict our bodies; suffer all the miseries in the world in way of satisfaction for the least sin: Alas! all would bee too little, too short, would not amount and come up to the least debt.