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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.
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.
- 1Dominus dedit; Dominus abstulit.
Nay, but if they should continue: yet will they do us no good in the day of trouble. They cannot save our souls from, nor in the day of wrath. They cannot save us from sickness, nor from death; not from Hell. Nor are they able to mitigate our Torments, to purchase one drop of water in that lake of fire. What profit had Ahab of his Vineyard? Baltazar of his cups? Dives of his wealth? Judas of his thirty-pence? Agrippa of his gay apparel? The rich fool of his full barns? All these would do them no good. Neither quench, nor bribe these flames; but rather afford Oil to increase them.