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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 now these are such Riches as God bestows upon none but Believers, — Abraham gave portions to the Sons of the Concubines, and sent them away: but unto Isaac he gave all he had.1
But now these are such Riches as God bestows upon none but Beleevers, — Abraham gave portions to the Sons of the Concubines, and sent them away: but unto Isaac hee gave all hee had.1
- 1Rex honours dignis.Rex honores dignis.
Other Riches may be taken away. A man may be rich to day, and poor to morrow. — The Lord hath given, 1the Lord hath taken away. Both with one breath. Hence the wise man. — Riches ⟨p. 112⟩make themselves wings, and fly away. But these are abiding Treasure: A Treasure, whose spring is in Heaven; whose Foundation is in Christ. — Our life is hid with Christ in God: not only hid for secrecy: but hid for safety. It is a safe life, an abiding life.
Other Riches may bee taken away. A man may bee rich to day, and poor to morrow. — The Lord hath given, 1the Lord hath taken away. Both with one breath. Hence the wise man. — Riches ⟨p. 112⟩make themselves wings, and flye away. But these are abiding Treasure: A Treasure, whose spring is in Heaven; whose Foundation is in Christ. — Our life is hid with Christ in God: not only hid for secrecy: but hid for safety. It is a safe life, an abiding life.