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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.
If Faith of Evidence, 1there Joy doth naturally result and arise from it: If but Faith of Adherence, there Joy is hid and secret, though it doth not appear. The seed of Joy is hid as yet under the Clods of Faith; but in time it will break forth and appear. Joy is there though it be not seen.
If Faith of Evidence, 1there Joy doth naturally result and arise from it: If but Faith of Adherence, there Joy is hid and secret, though it doth not appear. The seed of Joy is hid as yet under the Clods of Faith; but in time it will break forth and appear. Joy is there though it bee not seen.
- 1Ubi Fiducia, ibi Laetitia.
There may be a divorce between Faith and actual rejoicing for a time; but there can be no divorce between Faith, and the Matter, and Ground of Rejoicing: not between Faith and the Affection of Joy. — My Joy shall none take from you.
There may bee a divorce between Faith and actual rejoycing for a time; but there can bee no divorce between Faith, and the Matter, and Ground of Rejoycing: not between Faith and the Affection of Joy. — My Joy shall none take from you.
Thus you see Faith is an Heart-cheering-Grace. It fills the soul with such a Joy, as nothing is able to bereave the soul thereof. It is not Losses, Crosses, Poverty, Sickness, Prisons, Persecutions, which are able to take away this Joy of Faith.