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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 indeed their comfort did lye in the presence and enjoyment of these outward things, then no marvel, if in the absence of them, they were cast down. I say, If the floods of their comfort were maintained by such springs as these, then no marvel, if these being taken away, they be bereave of their Joy.
If indeed their comfort did lye in the presence and injoyment of these outward things, then no marvel, if in the absence of them, they were cast down. I say, If the floods of their comfort were maintained by such springs as these, then no marvel, if these being taken away, they bee bereave of their Joy.
But seeing these things are too short either to breed, or feed: either to beget, or fuel a Christians Joy: why should the deprival of them so much affect the heart, as to take away their Joy?
Have you not still the ground of Joy? you have lost your goods, but not your God. You are deprived of your Comforts, not of your Christ. And therefore except you do make Gods of the Creature, prize them too highly in your Judgement, engage your hearts and affections too much to them: why should your Joy be taken away?
Have you not still the ground of Joy? you have lost your goods, but not your God. You are deprived of your Comforts, not of your Christ. And therefore except you do make Gods of the Creature, prize them too highly in your Judgement, ingage your hearts and affections too much to them: why should your Joy bee taken away?