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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.
What a precious thing is Faith? It is called precious Faith. And so it is indeed; that is able to work such wonders in the Soul, in an instant.
What a precious thing is Faith? It is call'd precious Faith. And so it is indeed; that is able to work such wonders in the Soul, in an instant.
What a Cordial is this! when a man is in swooning, and fainting-fits, that one taste of the Promise by Faith, will fetch him to life again, when the soul lies in the dust, under sad apprehensions, ⟨p. 115⟩heavy Agonies, sinking and dying; one dram, one grain of Faith, will fetch him to life again, set him on his feet again, walking and leaping, and praising God. This is precious Faith indeed.
What a Cordial is this! when a man is in swounding, and fainting-fits, that one taste of the Promise by Faith, will fetch him to life again, when the soul lies in the dust, under sad apprehensions, ⟨p. 115⟩heavy Agonies, sinking and dying; one dram, one grain of Faith, will fetch him to life again, set him on his feet again, walking and leaping, and praising God. This is precious Faith indeed.
Now, for the manner how Faith doth work for the raising up of the Soul from under these spiritual Troubles, we will only add these particulars.
Now, for the manner how Faith doth work for the raising up of the Soul from under these spiritual Troubles, wee will only adde these particulars.