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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.
4. The Graces of the Spirit. The least of which doth weigh down all the World. The least grain of Grace, of Love, of Repentance, of godly sorrow, Humility, is worth ten thousand Worlds. — Faith is more precious than gold, saith Peter. Now these are the Riches, that Faith doth possess the Soul of, the invaluable Riches of Grace.
Other Riches God deals out promiscuously, and—No man knows either love or hatred, by any thing before him. A man may do wickedly and prosper, as it was said of Antiochus Epiphanes. 1These Riches Gods enemies do share in, as well as his friends. Nay, and have often the greatest share, the greatest portion, Job 21.7. Jer. 12.1. Dives may have more wealth; Saul more command; Agrippa more gorgeous apparel, than the dearest of Gods Saints.
Other Riches God deals out promiscuously, and—No man knows either love or hatred, by any thing before him. A man may do wickedly and prosper, as it was said of Antiochus Epiphanes. 1These Riches Gods enemies do share in, as well as his friends. Nay, and have often the greatest share, the greatest portion, Job 21.7. Jer. 12.1. Dives may have more wealth; Saul more command; Agrippa more gorgious apparel, than the dearest of Gods Saints.
- 1Dan. 8.24, •5.