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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.
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.
When Cyprian was sentenced to dye upon the same ground, the Governor persuaded with him, that he should pity himself; and rather Renounce his error, than lose his life, and consult a little on it—He answers him—Fac quod tibi praeceptum est: In re tàm justâ nulla est consultatio: Sir, you are my Judge, you are none of my Counsellor: In so clear and just a cause there needs no Counsel. I will not dishonour the justness of my cause, to enter into Parley, and Consultation, whether to suffer, or sin. The like of that Virgin whereof Basil speaks; who bade adieu to estate and life, rather than abandon her Profession.
When Cyprian was sentenced to dye upon the same ground, the Governor perswaded with him, that he should pity himself; and rather Renounce his error, than lose his life, and consult a little on it—He answers him—Fac quod tibi praeceptum est: In re tàm justâ nulla est consultatio: Sir, you are my Judge, you are none of my Counsellor: In so clear and just a cause there needs no Counsel. I will not dishonor the justness of my cause, to enter into Parlee, and Consultation, whether to suffer, or sin. The like of that Virgin whereof Basil speaks; who bade adieu to estate and life, rather than abandon her Profession.