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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.
It will take up arguments, From Soul-raising-Attributes. From Soul-raising-Promises. From Soul-raising-Relations. From Soul-raising-Experiences.
It will encompass God with Gods own strength. And God cannot, because he will not deny. God will not reject his own strength, not strive against his own mercy, not resist his own Spirit, not falsify his own Truth; but will raise up, and revive the Soul.
It will incompass God with Gods own strength. And God cannot, because hee will not deny. God will not reject his own strength, not strive against his own mercy, not resist his own Spirit, not falsifie his own Truth; but will raise up, and revive the Soul.
Thus you see, Faith is a Soul-raising-Grace. Where Unbelief holds the soul under water, buries the soul in these sad conditions; Faith raiseth up and reviveth it. A believing soul cannot long lye under trouble. If all the Power, Truth, and Mercy of God will fetch him out, he shall be sure to be delivered. Faith engages and sets a work all these to help.
Thus you see, Faith is a Soul-raising-Grace. Where Unbeleef holds the soul under water, buries the soul in these sad conditions; Faith raiseth up and reviveth it. A beleeving soul cannot long lye under trouble. If all the Power, Truth, and Mercy of God will fetch him out, hee shall bee sure to bee delivered. Faith ingages and sets a work all these to help.