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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.
Faith brings a report to the Soul, that God is his God, Christ is his Christ: that his Name is written in the Book of Life: his sins are pardoned: his soul shall be saved. And such news as this must needs fill the soul with unexpressible Consolations, with joys unspeakable and full of glory.
Faith brings a report to the Soul, that God is his God, Christ is his Christ: that his Name is written in the Book of Life: his sins are pardoned: his soul shall bee saved. And such news as this must needs fill the soul with unexpressible Consolations, with joyes unspeakable and full of glory.
All other joys are but mad, and disorderly joys. They are carnal, not spiritual; outward, not inward joys; they are but painted, ⟨p. 119⟩not true Joys, imaginary, not real Joys, unsatisfying, not tull Joys; inconstant, not stable Joys. The best, false Raptures; Anabaptistical Illusions: not true Joys.
All other joyes are but mad, and disorderly joyes. They are carnal, not spiritual; outward, not inward joyes; they are but painted, ⟨p. 119⟩not true Joyes, imaginary, not real Joyes, unsatisfying, not tull Joyes; inconstant, not stable Joyes. The best, false Raptures; Anabaptistical Illusions: not true Joyes.
But this Joy. The Joy of Faith, it is grounded joy; it is 1. A spiritual Joy, for the Nature of it. 2. A Hearty Joy, for the Nature of it. 3. A Satisfying Joy, for the fullness of it. 4. A Constant Permanent Joy, for the duration of it. — My Joy shall no man take from you.