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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 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.
But what do I speak of this? If we could suffer as many thousand millions of years torments in hell, as the World hath stood minutes from the Creation: Nay, and God should widen the capacities of the Soul; make a man more strong and able to bear more wrath, make a man a larger vessel, to receive more torments, that so in time, the springs of his Justice may be drawn dry, the treasures of his wrath might be expended, and a full satisfaction be made; yet there would be no time, no eternity of torment, wherein there would be enough endured, as a full satisfaction for the least sin, for the least oath, thou hast ever sworn; for the least idle thought thou hast ever conceived, &c. The reason is; all this is but finite, and therefore cannot come up to satisfy for an offence of infinite demerit.
But what do I speak of this? If wee could suffer as many thousand millions of years torments in hell, as the World hath stood minutes from the Creation: Nay, and God should widen the capacities of the Soul; make a man more strong and able to bear more wrath, make a man a larger vessel, to receive more torments, that so in time, the springs of his Justice may bee drawn dry, the treasures of his wrath might bee expended, and a full satisfaction bee made; yet there would bee no time, no eternity of torment, wherin there would bee enough endured, as a full satisfaction for the least sin, for the least oath, thou hast ever sworn; for the least idle thought thou hast ever conceived, &c. The reason is; all this is but finite, and therefore cannot come up to satisfie for an offence of infinite demerit.