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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.
13. If sin be the Greatest Evil in the world, Then see what fools they are, who seek to rid themselves of other Evils, by the Admission of sin. He who labours to prevent other evils, or remove other evils, by the admission of sin, runs into the greatest evil of all. He kills himself, to save himself; he destroys himself, to preserve himself—He that thus saves his life, doth lose his life.
13. If sin be the Greatest Evil in the world, Then see what fools they are, who seek to rid themselves of other Evils, by the Admission of sin. He who labors to prevent other evils, or remove other evils, by the admission of sin, runs into the greatest evil of all. He kills himself, to save himself; he destroys himself, to preserve himself—He that thus saves his life, doth lose his life.
- 13. Consectary.
There were never any times so bad, but Gods people might have been safe in them, if they would have admitted of sin. But they have seen their safety to lie in Suffering, when they could have no safety, but in the Admission of sin: You see it in the practice of the Three Children.
It was the speech of the Primitive Christians, when they were threatened with Prisons and Deaths, if they would not renounce Christ—Parce precor, Imperator, Tu Carcerem, Ille Gehennam—S are, good Emperor, thou threatenest a Prison, but Christ Hell.
It was the speech of the Primitive Christians, when they were threatned with Prisons and Deaths, if they would not renounce Christ—Parce precor, Imperator, Tu Carcerem, Ille Gehennam—S are, good Emperor, thou threatnest a Prison, but Christ Hell.