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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.
2. Such they are, as for the present are under some sad and sore Temptation, combat with Satan, and for the present their spirits are saddened, and cast down.
2. Such they are, as for the present are under some sad and sore Temptation, combate with Satan, and for the present their spirits are sadned, and cast down.
3. Such as are in deserted conditions; God having withdrawn himself, and hid his face from the Soul. Than which there is no sadder condition in the World, when not a Star, but the Sun it self is rent from the Sky; when not a single Comfort, but the universal Comfort seems to be gone. This may sadden the spirit of Gods people for a time.
3. Such as are in deserted conditions; God having withdrawn himself, and hid his face from the Soul. Than which there is no sadder condition in the World, when not a Star, but the Sun it self is rent from the Sky; when not a single Comfort, but the universal Comfort seems to bee gone. This may sadden the spirit of Gods people for a time.
All Jobs crosses did not so much affect him as this. The loss of his Goods, of his Possession, of his Children came not so near him, as the apprehension of the loss of his God. He could lift up his head under all the other: but here he was ready to sink.
All Jobs crosses did not so much affect him as this. The loss of his Goods, of his Possession, of his Children came not so neer him, as the apprehension of the loss of his God. Hee could lift up his head under all the other: but here hee was ready to sink.