A28620:1991
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.
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.
Such a Condition Gods people may be in, which may cause sadness of spirit, as was David, Heman, Hezekiah, and others.
Such a Condition Gods people may bee in, which may cause sadness of spirit, as was David, Heman, Hezekiah, and others.
2. So secondly for those of Gods people, that are thus sad and disconsolate; it is not as they are Believers, but as they are Doubters. Their Trouble ariseth from Doubting, not from Believing. It is not Faith, but the want of Faith, which is the cause of their uncomfortable walking.
2. So secondly for those of Gods people, that are thus sad and disconsolate; it is not as they are Beleevers, but as they are Doubters. Their Trouble ariseth from Doubting, not from Beleeving. It is not Faith, but the want of Faith, which is the cause of their uncomfortable walking.