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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.
Though the waters of Calamity should rise so high as to drown up all his comforts: yet he could rejoice in God.
Though the waters of Calamity should rise so high as to drown up all his comforts: yet hee could rejoyce in God.
In the absence of all worldly comforts, Faith can let in springs of Consolation from God, to rejoice the Soul. If God, if Christ, if Glory can rejoice the heart, Faith will not want matter of Joy in the saddest condition. It is an Heart-cheering Grace. Faith will present to man Soul-rejoicing-grounds. There are these five grounds of Rejoicing.
In the absence of all worldly comforts, Faith can let in springs of Consolation from God, to rejoyce the Soul. If God, if Christ, if Glory can rejoyce the heart, Faith will not want matter of Joy in the saddest condition. It is an Heart-chearing Grace. Faith will present to man Soul-rejoycing-grounds. There are these five grounds of Rejoycing.
1. Our Election. Hence Christ saith,— Rejoice that your Names are written in the Book of Life. 2. Our Redemption. 3. Our Justification. 4. Our Sanctification. 5. The Promises and Hopes of Glorification.
1. Our Election. Hence Christ saith,— Rejoyce that your Names are written in the Book of Life. 2. Our Redemption. 3. Our Justification. 4. Our Sanctification. 5. The Promises and Hopes of Glorification.