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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.
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.
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 sicknesse, 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 Oile to increase them.
But now Grace; that riches, which Faith doth enrich us withal; it is such as will uphold us in sickness, be a choice cordial in that bitter potion; it will deliver us in death, save us in the day of wrath, and enable us to lift up our heads with joy and boldness in the day of Judgement, that terrible day of the Lord, when the wicked shall tremble before the Judge, and call upon the Mountains to fall upon them, and the Hills to cover them from the presence of him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.
But now Grace; that riches, which Faith doth inrich us withall; it is such as will uphold us in sickness, bee a choice cordial in that bitter potion; it will deliver us in death, save us in the day of wrath, and inable us to lift up our heads with joy and boldness in the day of Judgement, that terrible day of the Lord, when the wicked shall tremble before the Judge, and call upon the Mountains to fall upon them, and the Hills to cover them from the presence of him that sitteth on the Throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb.