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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.
5. Consectary.
1If sin be so great an evil, then see what fools they are, who make a mock at sin. Prov. 14.9—Fools make a mock at sin; they sport at sin. It is a sport to swear, to be drunk, &c. they will sin for sport and recreation. It is their recreation to do evil, to drink, to swear, to lye, to profane Gods-day—These are Fools. What, Natural Fools? No: he that goes about with a Whistle, and a Babble, and a Coat, is in far better case than he. He is a Spiritual Fool, the greatest Fool.
1If sin be so great an evil, then see what fools they are, who make a mock at sin. Prov. 14.9—Fools make a mock at sin; they sport at sin. It is a sport to swear, to be drunk, &c. they will sin for sport and recreation. It is their recreation to do evil, to drink, to swear, to lye, to profane Gods-day—These are Fools. What, Natural Fools? No: he that goes about with a Whistle, and a Bable, and a Coat, is in far better case than he. He is a Spiritual Fool, the greatest Fool.
- 15. Consectary.
Will you sport with poison? will you sport your selves with Hell? nay worse, Will you recreate your selves, with destroying your selves? will you sport your selves with that, which was so bitter to Christ? and will be so to thee, if ever thou be pardoned.