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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.
Ans. 1. Believers may rejoice, and thou not discern it.
Ans. 1. Beleevers may rejoyce, and thou not discern it.
It is a Joy which is not known but by experience. Hence the Apostle saith, — It is a Joy that passeth all understanding. None know it, but they who feel it. — A stranger doth not intermeddle with this Joy. As they cannot feel it, so they cannot see it: and therefore are no Competent Judges, whether Gods people are joyful, or whether they be sorrowful.
It is a Joy which is not known but by experience. Hence the Apostle saith, — It is a Joy that passeth all understanding. None know it, but they who feel it. — A stranger doth not intermeddle with this Joy. As they cannot feel it, so they cannot see it: and therefore are no Competent Judges, whether Gods people are joyfull, or whether they bee sorrowfull.
2. But to answer further. You say, Believers are sad and disconsolate people.
2. But to answer further. You say, Beleevers are sad and disconsolate people.