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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.
1. The Favour of God; That's invaluable, Psal. 63.3. — Thy loving kindness is better than Life. And Life is the most precious thing a man hath in the World — Skin for Skin, and all a man hath will he give for his life. The Devil was right there. Now Gods loving-kindness is better than Life.
1. The Favour of God; That's invaluable, Psal. 63.3. — Thy loving kindness is better than Life. And Life is the most precious thing a man hath in the World — Skin for Skin, and all a man hath will hee give for his life. The Devil was right there. Now Gods loving-kindness is better than Life.
2. The Souls of Men. — What will it profit a man to gain the whole World, and lose his Soul? Christ sets the gain of the whole World against the loss of one Soul. He puts one Soul in one Balance, and the whole World in another. And one Soul weighs down all. — What will it profit? its too light. All that gain cannot make up this loss. It is an incomparable loss, because an irrecoverable loss; once lost, lost for ever. There's no recovery of a lost soul. Though a man may lose other things, yet may he recover them again: Man may lose Riches, &c. but not his Soul, when once lost for want of believing.
2. The Souls of Men. — What will it profit a man to gain the whole World, and lose his Soul? Christ sets the gain of the whole World against the losse of one Soul. Hee puts one Soul in one Balance, and the whole World in another. And one Soul weighs down all. — What will it profit? its too light. All that gain cannot make up this loss. It is an incomparable loss, because an irrecoverable loss; once lost, lost for ever. There's no recovery of a lost soul. Though a man may lose other things, yet may hee recover them again: Man may lose Riches, &c. but not his Soul, when once lost for want of beleeving.