A28620:1971
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.
1. Faith will enable a man to rejoice in Bonds, to rejoice in Tribulations and Sufferings for Christ, as the Apostle saith — As Sufferings abound, the Consolations shall superabound. As if all the floods of Consolation did issue from the spring of Sufferings.
1. Faith will inable a man to rejoyce in Bonds, to rejoyce in Tribulations and Sufferings for Christ, as the Apostle saith — As Sufferings abound, the Consolations shall superabound. As if all the floods of Consolation did issue from the spring of Sufferings.
2. It will enable a man to rejoice in sickness. Faith will be our best Cordial, and let in such a beam of Gods love into the Soul, as will cheer and comfort the heart in this condition: warm and enlighten it: not only enlighten, but warm the heart in this condition.
2. It will inable a man to rejoyce in sicknesse. Faith will bee our best Cordial, and let in such a beam of Gods love into the Soul, as will chear and comfort the heart in this condition: warm and inlighten it: not only inlighten, but warm the heart in this condition.
3. It will enable a man to Rejoice in Poverty, in Calamity, in Famine. ⟨p. 120⟩You see Habakkuks confidence, Hab. 3.17, 18. — Although the Figtree do not blossom, nor shall there be fruit in the Vines; though the labour of the Olive shall fail, and the field shall yield no meat: though the sheep be cut off from the Fold, and there be no Bullock in the stall; yet I will rejoice in the Lord: I will joy in the God of my Salvation.